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Coffee House Shots

Sunak and Javid resign. Now what?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid have resigned from government. In letters to the Prime Minister this evening, Sunak said the government 'cannot continue like this', while Javid told the PM that 'the situation will not change under your leadership.' Will more ministers now resign? And is this the end of Boris Johnson's premiership?

Isabel Hardman speaks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls.

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0:00.0

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0:17.7

Hello and welcome to Coffee House shots, suspectators, daily and sometimes more than daily.

0:23.2

Politics podcast. I'm Isabel Harman, and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and James Versailles,

0:28.2

and we are on the roof of Parliament, which means something big has happened.

0:32.8

So far from the government, we've had a resignation of Rishi Sunak as Chancellor

0:38.1

and Saturday Javid as Health Secretary after a torrid day in which ministers have been

0:43.7

laughed at in both the House of Lords and the House of Commons for trying to suggest that Boris

0:48.4

Johnson merely forgot about earlier allegations against Chris Pincher when he claimed he had not

0:54.0

been made aware of any specific complaints against him when he made him deputy chief whip.

1:00.4

James, is this the end of the government?

1:03.6

I've utilized resignations to put it mildly the gravest crisis of Boris Johnson's

1:10.0

premiership so far. These resignation letters are a combination of Nigel Lawson and Jeffrey

1:16.8

House. One is the Chancellor saying that people expect governments to be conducted properly,

1:23.2

seriously and competently with the obvious implication that it's not being, and then sets out

1:28.0

that the fundamental differences on economic policy and suggesting that there is also

1:33.1

seriousness about the government's approach and says that you can't carry on like this,

1:37.4

I can't continue like this. Saturday Javid is saying that no one individually is bigger than

1:42.3

the party and a conflict of loyalty between a country party and his friendship with Boris Johnson,

1:48.5

his loyalty to his country and his party must win out. Again, as with the no-confidence vote,

1:53.6

it is very hard to see what the policy solution to these concerns from Boris Johnson are.

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