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Coffee House Shots

Is the SNP more conservative than the Conservatives?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Daily News, News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

There is a lot of news to cover on Coffee House Shots before the celebrations for the Jubilee begin. First in Westminster with Lord Geidt threatening to resign over Boris Johnson's handling of partygate. Then more internationally to the fraying of the alliance to defend Ukraine. And finally, has Scotland found its Margret Thatcher in Kate Forbes? 

Cindy Yu talks with James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson. 

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0:21.3

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

0:24.9

I'm Cindy you and I'm joined by Fris and Elson and Jo and herself.

0:28.5

So partigate continues the rumble on as this rebellion of sorts

0:33.0

continues to ramp up against Boris Johnson.

0:35.8

James, at the moment, he's having to fight off his standards commission.

0:38.8

Now, you tell us about this argument going on with Lordguide.

0:41.2

So yesterday the annual register of ministers' interest was published and it has an introduction

0:46.4

by Lordguide and it made clear how it was written in kind of language that the Humphrey would be

0:52.8

proud of. But you didn't need a translator to be clear to understand how

0:58.4

Ross Lordguide is and essentially what he is upset about is that he had communicated he says

1:04.8

repeatedly to number 10 that he wanted Boris Johnson to talk about why Boris Johnson did not

1:10.3

think he had broken the ministerial code because otherwise Boris Johnson been fined by the police

1:16.1

for breaking code regulations and not referring to the code would make the code look ridiculous.

1:21.2

And Boris Johnson didn't in Parliament or in his public utterances explain how he for

1:26.1

being fined was not in contravention of the code. And Lordguide basically indicated that if that

1:31.4

happens, you know, carries on happening, he would be put in a position where he would look ridiculous

1:35.2

and would have to resign. And I think what he's upsetting to re-impease his two things.

1:41.2

First of all, they just want Partigate to go away. Now, they knew that the Gray report was not going

1:46.6

to mean that it would go away because the Privates Committee is going to investigate. But before

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