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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.

Every week we take a look at some of the stories from the new issue of the magazine

and invite the writers and experts to join us in explaining and debating the themes we've touched upon.

I'm Lara Prendergast.

This week, can the Prime Minister paper over the cracks or is it curtains for Boris?

Plus, how will the internet of things shape global conflicts in the future? And finally, we speak

to two people at the forefront of the COVID crisis in India.

First up, since coming to office, the Prime Minister has defeated the EU, Jeremy Corbyn and coronavirus, but does the news that the Electoral Commission is opening an investigation into

his finances mean it might finally be curtains for Boris?

We're joined by ITV's political editor and author

of this week's diary, Robert Peston, and our own deputy political editor, Katie Balls, to discuss

the extraordinary convulsions in Downing Street. Katie, this has been an extraordinary week in

Downing Street. Has the Prime Minister finally met his comeuppance in the form of Dominic Cummings

and the interior designer Lulu Little? I think we're edging there. I think that if you're looking at

Dominic Cummings versus Boris Johnson, it feels that this is just, you know, one chapter in what is

probably going to be a long, potentially never-ending saga where neither party comes out particularly

well, but ultimately the

Prime Minister has more to lose. I think we're seeing a situation where ultimately the Tories

are riding high in the polls, lots of Tory MPs as of last week, and I think still this week,

are privately expecting to make gains, to have some things potentially a hearty pull win in the

by-election. But yeah, you have this strange

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