Partygate returns, but no energy strategy
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 2 April 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
London's Metropolitan Police issued the first fines over the Partygate scandal this week. British prime minister Boris Johnson has yet to be fined, but does the scandal still pose a threat to his leadership? We also explore how this will shape the local elections, the internal Tory debate on trans rights and why the government is struggling to publish its new strategy on energy security. Presented by Sebastian Payne, with Laura Hughes, Jim Pickard, Nathalie Thomas and special guest Paul Goodman.
Produced by Anna Dedhar and Howie Shannon. The sound engineers were Breen Turner and Jan Sigsworth.
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| 0:00.0 | The first fines in the Partigate scandal have been issued by the Met Police, but |
| 0:06.3 | Boris Johnson has dodged questions about whether he's in trouble. |
| 0:09.9 | To repeat that there will come a point when I will be able to talk about the |
| 0:17.2 | investigation and the conclusions of the investigation. That is when the |
| 0:21.8 | investigation has concluded and I've no doubt at all that I will be back |
| 0:25.8 | before this committee, back before the House of Commons to talk about it. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome to Payne's Politics, your insider guide to what's happening in |
| 0:37.0 | British politics from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne. In this |
| 0:42.2 | recent episode we'll be looking at the prime minister's position after some |
| 0:45.6 | bumpy weeks of highs and lows. Has the Partigate scandal put him in trouble again |
| 0:50.7 | or has the worst of the danger passed? Has the Ukraine war provided him with a |
| 0:55.3 | domestic respite and how will all these issues play out in maids local |
| 0:59.7 | elections? Political and diplomatic covers weren't law hues were |
| 1:03.5 | analysed, along with a special guest Paul Goodman, editor of the Conservative |
| 1:07.6 | home website. And later we'll be looking at what is going on with the UK's |
| 1:11.9 | energy strategy and how it intends to ensure better security, particularly |
| 1:16.2 | after the war with Ukraine. Are we going to get a policy white paper and we'll |
| 1:20.6 | nuclear power be at the heart of it? Chief political correspondent Jim Picard |
| 1:24.8 | will explore with our energy correspondent Natalie Thomas. Thank you all for |
| 1:29.1 | joining. |
| 1:33.9 | Back in February, Partigate was the central story and the central danger facing |
| 1:39.4 | Boris Johnson. Conservative MPs were putting less of no confidence in his |
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