The end of Boris Johnson and the start of the Covid Inquiry

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Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Nish and Coco are reunited in the studio following a tumultuous week in politics that saw Boris Johnson resign and Nicola Sturgeon arrested. Sky News’ Liz Bates tells us why Johnson’s demise could be good news for the strength of UK democracy, and explains why the independence movement is holding firm despite the SNP’s woes. Given it was Johnson’s party-ing during Covid that brought him down, it’s timely that the public hearings in the Covid Inquiry got underway this week. Labour frontbencher, Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, tells us why she went back to working 12 hour shifts in hospital during the worst of the pandemic. She reveals some of the harrowing things she saw, and why she felt pity for Matt Hancock when she faced him in the Commons.

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0:00.0	Hello pod save the UK listeners. This is Nishikamar. I am here with Coco Khan
0:05.4	Hiya
0:06.4	We have recorded an episode in the studio and in my opinion
0:11.6	It's an excellent episode. Maybe I'll best so far and you will hear that
0:16.5	And on however, we're recording a special introduction to you
0:20.8	Because the privileges committee has published its findings on Boris Johnson
0:27.3	And that has happened this morning after we completed the recording
0:31.7	But we've decided to hop on and just have a quick chat about it
0:35.2	Let me phrase it like this
0:37.0	When the film cats came out
0:39.0	We had all seen pictures of the film cats
0:41.9	We'd seen little clips from the trailer of the film cats
0:46.5	We knew it was going to be bad
0:48.6	And yet somehow when we saw it
0:50.6	It was even worse than we'd imagined
0:53.1	And that is all I can say about this privilege as committee report
0:57.6	The key findings here are that Boris Johnson had knowledge of the COVID rules and guidance
1:03.4	Had knowledge of the breach of rules and guidance that occurred in number 10
1:06.6	And misled parliament
1:08.6	And so the committee has recommended a 90 day suspension
1:13.3	Which is 9 times longer than the 10 days required to trigger a bi-election
1:19.6	Coco, what's your immediate thoughts to seeing this?
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