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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Hedle and I'm joined today by Katie

Bulls and Kate Andrews. Now today they conserved to home cabinet rankings around and Katie,

what's the big story from that? The big story is that Richie Sunex Tory approval rating

is negative for the first time since he became Prime Minister, according to this con-home poll,

which they do monthly. So he looked into the rankings. Ben Wallace remains number one and has been

for a very long time. James cleverly, number two, can we be in number three? Penny,

more than four? Steve Buckley, five. So I don't think any of that is particularly surprising.

Those people have been quite high up on the last one. But I think what's interesting there are now

nine ministers in negative ratings. When there were six ministers in negative ratings last month

in the cabinet league table. Now of this, it's Oliver Dowd and a minus 0.4. Then Richie Sunex

on minus 2.7. Then you have Greg Hans, Michael Gove, Andrew Mitchell, Grant Shaps, Jeremy Hunt,

Robert Jenric and Torres Coffey. What does this tell us? I mean, I think in a way it just confirms

that it's been a really difficult period for Richie Sunex since the local elections really,

where the local elections, I think, burst the recovery narrative. And since then, there's been

a sliding. And you speak to MPs now, speak to MPs this week. Everyone's trying to work at what

exactly did it. But I think you go back and we did say on this podcast quite soon after the

local election results, things felt very loose in government. In the sense, you had the national

conservatism conference yesterday. We had the new conservatives. Lots of quite noisy MPs taking

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