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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Osked Monson and I'm joined today by Tim Shipman and Michael Simmons. Now, Kier Starma will have been

hoping for a more relaxed week this week, but he certainly will not be getting it.

Now, we'll come on to the row over support for children with special educational needs and whether it threatens to be a welfare 2.0.

But Tim, firstly, there was some interesting news regarding reform over the weekend.

Yeah, that's right. James McDowoc, who's one of their, well, they're down to four MPs now,

because James McModock has voluntarily surrendered the whip

and they'd already lost one of their others after internal rouse.

Yeah, the Sunday Times, my old potaget Gabriel Pogrand,

causing trouble again, basically showed how he'd taken out

£70,000 worth of loans during the pandemic for two

companies that, how do we phrase this, didn't appear to be doing a great deal of business or

have a great many staff. So Jam Financial Limited, which had no employees, we are informed,

took a 50 grand loan and McMurdoch subsequently transferred the shares to his mother

and Jim Live Health and Fitness Limited had another £20,000 and McModock seems not to have

registered his directorship in that in the usual way in the House of Commons. So he, we should

stress, is saying that absolute compliance was confirmed, no laws were broken, etc, etc.

But for a party that has gone after sort of Tory incompetence and jobs and contracts for the boys, it's a bit embarrassing.

And it just, you know, it just highlights the fact that politics is a rough old trade.

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