Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a weekly podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host Alan Tolhurst and each week I'll be taking in-depth look at the biggest political

stories with fellow politics home reporters and special guests from across Westminster.

Joining me this week is Politics Home Political Political Reporter Eleanor Langford, as well as Conservative

former Minister John Penrose, who this week quit his role as the government's anti-corruption champion over the party

gate saga. We are also joined by Will Tanner, director of the influential conservative think

tank onward and a former deputy head of policy in Ten Downing Street.

And really there's only one place to start this week, obviously.

Boris Johnson having a confidence vote against in his leadership after a number of MPs sent letters in.

He obviously won that vote by, he would say, a comfortable majority of 63, but obviously there's a lot of talk about the fact that 148 of his own MPs voted against him.

I just wonder, John,

going to you first, what kind of the mood was in the party post that and kind of what is the mood amongst of your colleagues who were annoyed or angry about the things that happened?

And what kind of things are they looking for to see from Downing Street and Boris Johnson

moving forward? So I think the simple answer to the mood is it's been pretty subdued.

It's been notable that there haven't been, you know, mass resignations and ministers and

that sort of stuff. So there haven't been extra fuel to the fire, if I can put it that way.

So it's been very subdued. And I think also, you know, the prime minister said he wants a reset. He knows he's got to change and he knows he's got to rebuild bridges and sort the problem out. He's, you know, he's a realist. He said he wants to do it. And so I think people probably want to give him a bit of space to do that. There's been some announcements today, for example, on housing policy. And yesterday

was the leveling up bill, started its progress through Parliament. So I think people want to give

him a chance to show, you know, what the new Boris is going to look and the new regime is going

to look like. And, you know, goodness knows, we all want him to succeed because actually

the government's program program the leveling up agenda

remains positive remains popular and most of us find on the doorsteps that actually the ideas

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