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Coffee House Shots

Is Tory sleaze cutting through?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today, Rishi Sunak faced another round of questioning over the two ongoing Tory sleaze scandals. What is it about these stories that infuriate voters, and can the Prime Minister close the chapter on them as he promised to do? Max Jeffery talks to Katy Balls and pollster James Johnson, co-founder of JL Partners.

Produced by Max Jeffery and Cindy Yu.

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0:00.0

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0:10.0

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0:16.0

Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

0:20.0

I'm Max Jeffery and today I'm joined by Katie Bulls and James Johnson, co-founder of Polling Firm Jail Partners.

0:27.0

Katie, we heard PMQ's this afternoon. Tell us what happened.

0:31.0

So I think this is always going to be a difficult prime minister's question to Rishi Sunak because of the ongoing Nidim Zahawi story.

0:37.0

In the sense, I think there's a phrase used a lot of growing unease amongst Tory MPs when it comes to the fact this issue has not been dealt with.

0:45.0

And I think probably the move that would have spared Rishi Sun the most blushes or made things easier for him would have been if there had been a resignation this morning from Nidim Zahawi.

0:55.0

Well, you know, Downing Street is saying he had left government.

0:58.0

Instead, you have a situation where because Rishi Sunak has said it's going to go to the independent ethics advisor, we expect this to run.

1:05.0

I don't think run for months. For example, I understand Downing Street is just politically painful ones to be resolved quite quickly.

1:12.0

But you would expect that to be at least a week maybe longer.

1:15.0

We could still get a few more prime minister's questions on this potentially. Lucky Rishi Sunak.

1:19.0

And therefore, it meant that Kirstama and also the S&P were able to really go in the attack saying, well, not just what did you know and when?

1:27.0

Why did last week you say that this was case closed, but now we have a investigation.

1:31.0

But also, I think that regular labor attack, and we know here, which is you a weak prime minister and Kirstama really went for that again.

1:38.0

And in response, Rishi Sunak went to, I think his own favorite tactic, which is to say, but you served under Jeremy Corbyn.

1:45.0

Don't you forget that. And we had that in his finance comments basically saying, well, I am someone who has principles for Rishi Sunak said because when I disagreed with my leader at the time, Boris Johnson, I resigned.

1:59.0

You served in Jeremy Corbyn's government and you never resigned.

2:02.0

And I think as an attack line, I think the problem is even quite loyal to R&P's question, how much sting the Jeremy Corbyn attacks still have?

2:12.0

And it was there for just another, I think, fairly painful round for Rishi Sunak.

2:18.0

And the longer the阴s of how a conversation goes on, just the more you have tourist leaves in the news, which is never particularly comfortable place to be.

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