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Hello and welcome to Coffee Houchots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James Versaith and Katie Bals.

So the Prime Minister is facing the most peril in his premiership so far,

but has he managed a stay of execution?

Katie, after yesterday's Prime Minister's questions,

after which we released the Coffee House shots that I'm sure all listens have heard of already,

what's happened overnight that has or hasn't perhaps changed a

calculation for the Prime Minister? So after Prime Minister's questions, we saw, I think,

a few things happen. I mean, the apology combined with this request to wait for Sue Gray's

inquiry, I think, has landed to the point that I think MPs are still quite

undecided generally, but they are at least saying, let's wait till this report comes out,

which we expect to be in a few weeks' time, so long as there isn't a police investigation

in the meantime. We have seen a show of support from the cabinet. It began with, you know,

ultra Boris Johnson loyalists like Nadine Doris coming out, Priti Patel also, and with, you know, ultra Boris Johnson loyalists like Nadine Doris coming out,

Pretty Patel also, and say, you know, you've got to stand by our man, some on Tory WhatsApp, some on social

media. And then that became a game of, well, has every single member of the cabinet come out

to back Boris Johnson? Notably, Rishi Sunek and Liz Truss

took quite some time. I think they got round to it both, you know, early evening, Rishi

Sunaq lend Lisholst Trust. So I think it's fair to say the foreign secretary is slightly more

effusive in her praise of Boris Johnson, you know, suggesting that, you know, he was the man

for the job. Whereas I think what lots of papers have picked up today was how Rishi Sunak, who wasn't around yesterday, he wasn't in the

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