The Jacob Rees-Mogg Leadership Crisis One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Nick Robinson talks to Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg about the Prime Minister's survival, cake, dead cats and banned words

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Hello, welcome to Political Thinking.
0:07.9	I ended the podcast last week by wondering what next week would bring.
0:14.3	I'm tempted to start this week with the oldest cliché in politics.
0:20.5	Not quite of all time, but of modern times.
0:24.0	A week is...
0:25.1	I'm not going to end the sentence.
0:26.9	You know what it says, but the reason it's a cliché, of course, like all clichés,
0:31.8	is because it's rather true.
0:34.3	Every day of this week, I've come to Westminster,
0:37.4	expecting the grey report to be published,
0:40.9	talking to people about what it would say,
0:43.7	whether it would be enough to trigger a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson.
0:49.4	It didn't happen on Wednesday.
0:51.2	It didn't happen on Thursday.
0:53.2	It didn't happen on Friday.
0:55.7	Perhaps we should have realised that something was up.
0:59.0	When Cresider Dick, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police,
1:03.2	made a spectacular U-turn by suddenly announcing that after all,
1:09.2	Scotland Yard was rather interested in what happened in number 10,
1:15.0	even though it was quite a long time ago.
1:18.0	My three factors were and are.
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