Sorry Not Sorry
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Mark Harper, former Chief Whip, joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion pub on the week he told the Commons he no longer thinks the Prime Minister is "worthy of the great office he holds". The MP for the Forest of Dean nails his colours to the mast and says Boris Johnson is likely to face a vote of no confidence from his own MPs within the next three months, and that he's not sure the PM truly meant his numerous apologies. Ouch.
On the opposite side of the ring, and also on the podcast, is veteran Tory MP Michael Fabricant, who believes that the Prime Minister can weather this storm, but gives us his blow by blow on what other gatherings-based icebergs could be on the horizon.
Plus, Harriett Baldwin MP on the fact that 8% of the House of Lords is reserved for men only - and what she's planning to do to change that.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Shopers Politics. |
| 0:04.0 | Cake matters because cake defines a party. That's the point. |
| 0:07.0 | Cake, hats, fizz, poll dancers. |
| 0:10.0 | Crackers. I told there were no poll dancers. |
| 0:12.0 | Party poppers. Is that your line you cross? If there were no poll dancers, party poppers. Is that your line you cross? |
| 0:13.9 | If there are no poll dancers, he's safe, is that right? |
| 0:15.6 | I think that'd be the line. |
| 0:17.6 | Hello and welcome to the Red Line, pub in Westminster. I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor for Politics, and this is Chopper's Politics. |
| 0:27.0 | Now for the Tory Party, Partygate is the party that never ends. |
| 0:32.0 | In the House of Commons this week Boris Johnson |
| 0:34.8 | apologized dozens of times for his failings while MPs voted on whether to |
| 0:39.9 | investigate him now or in a few months time for misleading the House of Commons. |
| 0:44.6 | I have to say I'm sorry that for not obeying the letter and the spirit and I think we have |
| 0:50.1 | heard that the Prime Minister did know what the letter was, the Prime Minister now should |
| 0:54.1 | be long gone. |
| 0:55.1 | Madam Deputy Speaker, I'll certainly vote for this motion, but really the Prime Minister should |
| 0:59.2 | just know the gigs up. |
| 1:01.3 | It is utterly depressing to be asked to defend the indefensible each time part of us with us. |
| 1:10.0 | The Prime Minister is to face another investigation over lockdown parties in Downing Street. |
| 1:15.8 | This one will be led by MPs. |
| 1:19.0 | This week on the podcast we'll be hearing from a Boris Johnson cheerleader Michael Fabricant. |
| 1:26.0 | But first former government chief whip Mark Harper became the most senior Tory |
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