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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast, where each week we take a look at three articles from the magazine with the writers behind them.

I'm Nora Prendergast, the Spectator's Executive Editor.

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

Today on the podcast, we'll be asking if the Prime Minister is a dead man walking,

does woke advertising back fire, and is the dinner party in terminal decline?

First up, we're joined by our political editor, James Forsyth, and the MP, Jesse Norman,

who earlier this week expressed no confidence in the Prime Minister in Monday's vote.

Jesse, if we could start with you, you submitted a letter to Boris Johnson on Monday,

in which you gave your reasons as to why he no longer has your support, and you said that

you were also informing the 1922 committee of your

decision for listeners who may not have read your letter you did post it to twitter but but for readers

who for listeners who have not um read it could you just summarize your points for them as to why

you no longer support the Prime Minister?

Yes, of course. And the first thing I can say is that if your listeners are not spectator

subscribers, they should log on immediately because they can see the whole text of my letter on the

spectator. I thank you for that. As you might imagine, the letter was a very distressing one for me to send

because I've known the Prime Minister for a very long time,

and I've always been friendly with him, very friendly with him,

and I've always greatly liked him.

And the trouble is that we've got to a point where I felt that the Sue Gray report and the Queen's Speech

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