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Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shops, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

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

To preside over one lockdown party in Downing Street might be seen as misfortune.

Two begins to look like carelessness. It's difficult to imagine then what has been going through

the mind of the party gate investigator Sue Gray after an avalanche of allegations surfaced over the

previous week. The leader of the opposition Sir K Keir Stama, joined Sophie Rayworth this morning

to discuss what seems to be the only story in town. And having called for Boris Johnson to resign,

he was determined to keep up the pressure on the Prime Minister. Did the Prime Minister break the

law? I think he broke the law. I think he's as good as admitted that he broke the law.

And after all, Downing Street has now apologised to the Queen for some of the parties that have gone on. And I know that the government's

holding position is let's all wait for the Sue Gray report. But I think it's pretty obvious

what's happened. There's industrial-scale parting that's been going on at Downing Street. Not much of it is really denied. And I think that the public have made up their mind. I think the facts speak for themselves. I think the prime minister broke the law. I think he then lied about what had happened because, and this compounds the situation. When I first challenged the Prime Minister just about six or seven weeks ago in Parliament

about when the first allegations were coming out, he stood at the dispatch box and said,

I've been assured there were no parties.

So that was his position.

Then what happened was the Allegra video came out back at the

dispatch box, so I challenged him again, at which point the prime minister said, I'm furious. I've just

found out about these parties. I'm furious. And then of course, last week it emerged that he himself was at the party, or one of the parties in May 2020.

And his third defence is, I was there, but I didn't realise it was a party. There was a little bit of detail he gave in that answer, which is crucially important. He said at the dispatch box, had I appreciated, I would have got every

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