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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

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

If the government could write its own headlines, the last week would probably have been a wash

with a litany of environmental pledges made at COP 26.

Instead, Boris Johnson has managed to plunge headfirst into a quagmire of his own making,

after announcing plans to clean up a very different type of sludge.

The attempt to reform Parliament's lobbying rules has backfired,

and Owen Patterson, the MP at the midst of all the fuss,

has announced that he will leave the Commons.

On the Andrew Marshow, the leader of the opposition, Sir Keir Stama,

condemned the government's actions over the whole affair. Owen Patterson was lobbying the government

on behalf of a company that was paying him hundreds of thousands of pounds, and he was rightly

found guilty of that. That's been outlawed for a very long time. Along comes

the Prime Minister. Instead of upholding standards, he orders his MPs to protect his mate and

rip up the whole system. Now, that is corrupt. It is contemptible and it's not a one-off. This

Prime Minister has form, he has pattern. There are so

many examples. Pretty Patel, the Home Secretary, was found to have breached the Minister of Code.

What happened? She stayed. The advisor had to go. The Electoral Commission started looking

at the government. What happened? The government is trying to clip its wings. And now

there's been this outrageous undermining of Catherine Stone, the government's trying to clip its wings, and now there's been this outrageous

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