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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. Every week, a few of our favourite writers read out

their articles in the latest issue of The Spectator.

This week, the deputy political editor of The Spectator, Katie Balls, reads her political column.

She argues that the biggest danger to Boris comes from the enemies within.

Then she'll be followed by Laura Freeman, who takes a look at what kind of art ministers hang on their walls and what that says about them.

And finally, we'll be joined by the author Adam Sisman, who reviews a new book by Charles Milton

called Checkmate in Berlin, the Cold War Showdown that shaped the modern world. First is Katie Bors.

Boris Johnson's predecessor was destroyed by her inability to meet deadlines.

Theresa may extended the Brexit transition period so many times that her party eventually turned

against her. Johnson, he was notorious for pushing deadlines when he was a journalist,

is now discovering the political problem with missing dates.

The Prime Minister may still be flying high in the polls, but if he cannot meet the new date for ending restrictions, 19 July,

then his own MPs will lose faith in his ability to restore normality. The whole point of the

government's staggeringly long lockdown timetable announced back in February was to set an achievable deadline.

The theory was that by 21st of June, a high vaccination rate would mean there was no question of hospitals being overwhelmed.

The roadmap would offer certainty, a final end to intermittent lockdowns.

Just last week, the hospitality sector is preparing to

operate at full capacity, placing orders and hiring staff. Even ministers were sending out invitations

to their book launches and summer parties. Those events are off. After cases of the Indian

variant soared, scientists warned that the peak of hospitalisations could rival the first wave,

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