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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shops, the Spectator's Daily Politics podcast.

I'm Isabelle Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup.

After a week in which the government had wanted to celebrate Rishi Sunak's apparent success

with the Windsor Framework, the controversies of the recent past have once again resurfaced.

Fresh evidence suggesting Boris Johnson might have misled Parliament over Partigate and

the embarrassingly Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages have led to some uncomfortable questions.

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton Harris told Laura Coonsburg he believed Boris

Johnson was an honest man. You were a key part of the team who was trying to keep Boris Johnson

in number 10 as the scandal over lockdown parties unfolded. We've talked about it with our panel

this morning. We've seen it again splashed over the newspapers in the last few days

and a committee of MPs has clearly said in their view there are at least four occasions where

they believe Boris Johnson might have misled Parliament and the public. Do you agree?

So there are four occasions where Boris may have done that, may. When I became Boris's Chief Whip,

this was halfway through, well actually probably a third of the way through this period of time,

I wouldn't have become Boris's Chief Whip or I didn't believe him that he did not knowingly

mislead Parliament and I believe him to be an honest man and he did not knowingly mislead Parliament.

Did you ever ask him directly? Yes. And what did he say to you? He gave me chapter on verse that

demonstrates to me that he did not knowingly mislead Parliament and did not know it. He's generally

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