Partygate is back…

Politics Weekly UK

The Guardian

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🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Boris Johnson is again defending himself against allegations he lied about lockdown parties in Downing Street. Guardian journalist John Harris speaks to columnist Gaby Hinsliff and political correspondent Peter Walker about how damaging this is for Boris Johnson within the Tory party and with the public, and asks why Labour doesn’t seem to be capitalising on the government being mired in scandal again. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:15.0	Boris Johnson might have thought he was out of political trouble
0:18.0	as he focused on the war in Ukraine, but party gate is back,
0:22.0	as proved by one of Kirstalberg's points
0:24.0	at Prime Minister's question.
0:25.0	He really does think that it's one rule for him
0:28.0	and another rule for everyone else.
0:30.0	That he can pass off criminality in his office
0:33.0	and ask others to follow the law.
0:35.0	The Metropolitan Police has said 25s
0:38.0	are being issued for parties in Whitehall and Downing Street.
0:41.0	Johnson is in a tricky position.
0:43.0	He seems to be denying that laws were broken at number 10,
0:46.0	even though the police are now issuing fines.
0:49.0	Can you make that make sense?
0:51.0	And where's the Labour Party in all this?
0:54.0	Why are they really not capitalising on all this chaos?
0:57.0	I would say that Kirstalberg doesn't really
0:59.0	have a vision for the country, no story.
1:01.0	So we're going to try and find him one.
1:03.0	I'm John Harris and you'll listen to politics
1:05.0	with the UK for the Guardian.
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