Partygate: Boris Johnson breaks the rules (again)
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Does it matter if Boris Johnson broke more Covid rules by inviting guests to his country home, Chequers, when the rest of the country was in lockdown?
His former advisor Guto Harri says it's time to get over it. There are more important things to discuss. But we're not so sure the country is quite so ready to forgive and move on.
What does it say about the country in which we live, if rules no longer count and if the civil servants who report wrongdoing are threatened with legal action?
Later we look at the latest Presidential hopeful to take on Donald Trump - Ron DeSantis, Florida Governor, who is launching his campaign on Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Prime Minister. |
| 0:17.2 | Mr Speaker, what I can tell the right honourable gentleman is that all guidance was followed completely during number 10. |
| 0:28.4 | If the news agents were to release an album with their Christmas greatest hits, that track would have to be on it. |
| 0:35.5 | Boris Johnson, in the Commons, no rules were broken. |
| 0:39.6 | The reason we're playing it again today? |
| 0:41.7 | Well, fresh allegations have emerged. |
| 0:44.9 | That's right. |
| 0:45.5 | In the last 24 hours, the Prime Minister has been referred to the police by the Cabinet office |
| 0:51.6 | over brand new claims he broke more lockdown rules after his own |
| 0:57.0 | ministerial diary revealed where he was and who was with him during lockdown. |
| 1:04.2 | We're going to investigate what that means because his allies say it's just a witch hunt. |
| 1:09.2 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:13.9 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:15.4 | It's John. |
| 1:16.5 | It's Emily. |
| 1:17.2 | And it's Lewis. |
| 1:17.8 | And we are in Newsagents HQ. |
| 1:19.8 | And in a moment, we're going to be hearing from Gittow Harry, who was Boris Johnson's last |
| 1:25.9 | Director of Communications. |
| 1:30.1 | Wasn't there for all the parties during Partygate, but was left to clear up metaphorically the mess, some of the glasses, the plates |
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