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Chopper's Politics

The Telegraph

Brexit, Political, News, Uk, Coronavirus, Politics, Parliament

4.2 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Longtime Brexiteer Tory MP, Andrew Bridgen, joins Christopher Hope to exclusively reveal that he's submitted a 'letter of no confidence' in Boris Johnson over what he sees as a moral vacuum in government, and assures Chris that Bridgen Towers held no BYOB parties, thank you very much.

Also on the podcast: Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, Miriam Cates, joins us in the Red Lion pub after the PM's bruising PMQs this week. As a member of the Education Select committee, she shares her concerns around schooling in this country - from masks in the classroom to teaching on gender.

And Nile Gardiner, former aide to Margaret Thatcher, on why he's backing calls for a return to Thatcherite Conservatism, and why he thinks Boris Johnson needs to channel his inner Hugh Grant...

Boris Johnson delivered on Brexit and vaccines; all that’s left to deliver is his resignation, by Andrew Bridgen: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/01/13/boris-johnson-delivered-brexit-vaccines-left-deliver-resignation/ |

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0:00.0	Coming up on Chopper's politics.
0:04.0	I'm the same age as the Prime Minister. I can't change. I am what I am, Chris.
0:08.0	And I don't honestly believe the Prime Minister can change.
0:11.0	And he can't, I don't think he can undo what's been done.
0:15.0	Boris Johnson did something he hates doing this week.
0:20.0	He said,
0:21.0	I want to apologize.
0:25.0	I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's associate editor,
0:28.0	and this is Chopper's Politics.
0:30.0	If the Prime Minister thought the New Year would herald a clean slate, he was very much mistaken.
0:37.0	There's been a constant stream, nay a waterfall of allegations around so-called party gate, but for now, just for now, Boris Johnson
0:46.5	limps on. In the House of Commons, a few members of the opposition parties called for his
0:51.9	resignation during this week's Prime Minister's
0:54.4	questions and appealed directly to Tory MPs who hold the leader accountable if he wouldn't
1:00.4	set down himself to help out.
1:02.8	So with that in mind, let's start this podcast today
1:05.6	with a Brexiteer Tory MP,
1:08.7	making a bold move.
1:11.0	Andrew Bridgin, welcome to Chobers Politics.
1:14.0	Hi Chris.
1:15.0	Good to have you on.
1:16.0	Thank you for joining us remotely from Leicestershire.
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