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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast.

I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.

And I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor.

In this week's episode, recorded on the day Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister,

we'll be looking at what happens next.

We'll also be hearing about the Russian emigraise ready to return to fight for Russia. And finally, do we really need a 20

mile an hour speed limit? First up, James Forsyth, our political editor, has written this week's cover

piece looking at the next Tory leadership contenders. He joins us now, along with our deputy political

editor, Katie Balls. James, we're recording this on a historical day in British politics.

The Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned this morning and gave a speech around lunchtime. What was

your initial reaction to his speech? I thought the speech was the beginning of the great Boris Johnson betrayal

narrative. This was not a speech saying, I've made mistakes. I get why people have lost faith in me.

I'm standing down. It was a speech that described the decision to remove him as leader as eccentric,

pointing out that the Tories are only a few points behind in the polls at the

moment. You know, he talked about the have a herd, had kind of stampeded, and kind of essentially

implied that his MPs had panicked under kind of media sledging, and there was no kind of

recognition of his own role in his downfall. And I think this is Boris Johnson's history,

and he intends to write it, and it's going to be kind to him.

And I think he is going to, you know, all of his speeches, columns, autobiography, I think,

are all going to push this narrative that, you know, here was this great undefeated leader

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