Coming up on shoppers politics.

I mean, I've got to share the news here with listeners.

I mean, I don't know what they're going to make a business.

I hope we're sitting down at home wherever you're listening to this but you've given up the booze

I know that was the old mate I'm Christopher Hope chopper to my pals the

telegraph associate editor politics and Welcome to Chopper's Politics.

And I hope you've had a marvelous Christmas and New Year break.

Better at least than our Prime Minister Boris Johnson,

he's had to cope with increasing rumblings and grumblings about his leadership

of late.

First the revelation about parties in Ten Downing Street when the rest of us were locked down, not a good look.

And this week the PM's response to fears about an impending fuel crisis

have been labeled unconstitutional.

Well, by me at least.

Oh dear.

One part of the country that Boris Johnson will be

keen to keep sweet in the upcoming months are the so-called new blue wall seats.

My first guest on this week's podcast the first of 2022 thinks the PM may well have a fight on his hands.

In fact, my interviewee shouldn't really be a guest at all because he's meant to retire from politics at

least twice I think on the last count but it seems he can't quite get enough so he

joins me once again in his spiritual home the red line pub I'm talking of course about

Nigel Farage the former UKIP and Brexit Party leader this is part of your

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