Is the end nigh for Boris?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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James Forsyth joins Katy Balls from the roof of Parliament.
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| 0:19.8 | It's one of those days in Westminster where we're recording this podcast at 430 |
| 0:23.3 | and occasionally I'd both of us become actually used to lunch today. |
| 0:26.4 | And that's because it's been impossible to find any time when someone hasn't been |
| 0:31.0 | resigning from their job. We have seen a quite spectacular number of resignations today, Katie. |
| 0:38.8 | I think last night at about midnight when everyone in Westminster went home and went to bed, |
| 0:44.8 | it appeared that Boris Johnson stabilized the situation. He managed a point of chance |
| 0:48.1 | for an health secretary. And an education secretary. |
| 0:53.6 | And then this morning, the resignation started up again early on. |
| 0:58.6 | More and more MPs who've previously been lost are becoming out. |
| 1:01.6 | And then, you know, Nadeem Zahawi, the chancellor, |
| 1:03.7 | a very difficult first media round in that job, which was a line of how unsustainable |
| 1:07.2 | the situation is. What are we talking, Katie, to be annoying? |
| 1:13.9 | Are we talking days, weeks or months? |
| 1:16.4 | I think right now, it feels like days. Now, look, of course, things can change. |
| 1:19.8 | As you say, I think the fact that they did those announcements very quickly, |
| 1:23.8 | and as we're right in this week's spectator, that was a conscious effort after |
| 1:27.8 | suffering the resignation of Rishisuna Kansadjavad, a by Boris Johnson and his team to say, |
| 1:32.4 | we are going to get this done by 9pm. We're not going to waste time. |
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