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Coffee House Shots

Is this the end of Boris Johnson?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Kate Andrews, Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson react to the news that Boris Johnson has decided to stand down as an MP. Will the former Prime Minister go quietly?

Produced by Natasha Feroze.

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0:00.0

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0:18.4

Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

0:22.0

I'm Katie Andrews, I'm a Drone by Fraser Nelson and Katie Balls.

0:26.0

It's been a big 24 hours for Boris Johnson.

0:29.2

First we got his resignation honors list.

0:32.0

We thought that would be the big news of yesterday, but it wasn't.

0:36.3

The former Prime Minister has now resigned.

0:38.8

Katie, talk us through it.

0:41.1

So this all comes back to the privileges report, which ultimately was what stopped.

0:46.8

Quite a few MPs from backing Boris Johnson.

0:49.2

If you think in the autumn, when we had the second leadership contest of 2022,

0:55.2

the investigation to whether or not Boris Johnson misled Parliament

0:59.1

on co-restrictions, I mean, he had paid enough attention to them.

1:03.8

And if, of course, the committee came back and found that he had intentionally misled

1:09.6

Parliament and then gave him a punishment of 10 days or more, that could open him to

1:14.8

recall petition.

1:15.9

And then this could lead to a by-election in the seat of Uxbridge.

1:19.4

And that majority is not looking so strong, particularly in a by-election where you get

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