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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics podcast.

I'm Cindy U. and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Katie Balls.

So the Prime Minister has finally spoken on the Owen Patterson affair and the following

his sleigh scandals.

This is what he had to say in a press conference earlier today.

But I genuinely believe that the UK is not remotely a corrupt country, nor do I believe that our institutions are corrupt.

And I think it's very, very important to say that.

We have a very, very tough system of parliamentary democracy and scrutiny, and not least by the media.

And I think everybody can see that.

James, what did you make of the Prime Minister's comments?

Well, I think you can see the line the Prime Minister is trying to walk.

He still doesn't want to apologise for the way that the partisan vote was handled.

And it is worth nothing that Boris Johnson is not a kind of apologising type

politician. But I think in this instance, that is causing him real problems. I mean, there is,

I think some contrition would actually help and would also help him, not just with the public,

but also with his own parliamentary party. And it's also hard not to be, I think, contrite when you

consider how the government is now set about

U-turning so comprehensively what it did.

You know, it's even bringing a motion on the kind of basically allowing everything it did to be

completely unpicked when Parliament returns next week.

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