Is the privileges committee a kangaroo court?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

After an eight-day world tour, Boris Johnson is back on British soil to come face-to-face with Tory MPs for the first time since the hammering by-election defeat. Meanwhile, the privileges committee begins with Harriet Harman as its chair.

Critics have suggested this inquiry into whether The Prime Minister misled parliament over partygate risks becoming a 'kangaroo court'. Will this give Downing Street the chance to disregard the outcome of the inquiry?

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0:17.3	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,
0:18.9	the spectator's daily politics podcast.
0:21.2	I'm Sunni here and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and Joan Forsyth.
0:24.7	So Boris Johnson's back from his eight-day tour of the world.
0:28.2	Katie, what situation does he come back to?
0:30.0	Because I think the Privilegeist Committee have started investigating now.
0:33.2	So I think if you take a step back he comes back to many domestic woes and if you've had a
0:38.4	period where the Prime Minister has been out to country for a very long time for a Prime Minister
0:42.5	to be out and in that we've seen I think Boris Johnson quite comfortable on the world stage.
0:48.3	I think it's clearly a bit of a break and relief probably from dealing with his quite
0:53.4	angry Tory MPs and lots of the issues back here in terms of cost of living and actually talking
0:59.2	about Ukraine and the values that he thinks democracy should be putting forward.
1:04.8	I think it's something where you can just see that it's helping him get a little bit of his
1:08.0	mojo back. However, I think the a student who gets back here you get to the point where he is
1:14.0	facing to pretty bad bi-election defeats, one very bad to fit in a honoured in and it gets to
1:21.6	the point of can he find a way to draw a line under that and move forward or not?
1:25.2	Because we've seen all these various interviews he've had to do abroad, constant questions about
1:29.2	what's your position? He's tried to ban some often lots of different ways from third term
1:34.2	to people aren't interested in this but I think that talk will just continue on return.
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