The problem with Chris Skidmore's resignation

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

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Summary

Chris Skidmore has formally announced his resignation today, triggering another by-election in the process. His departure from the Commons is in protest against the government's bill on new oil and gas licenses, which is set to be debated later this evening. What's the reaction been in Westminster?

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management,
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0:18.5	Hello and welcome to coffee house shots.
0:21.3	I'm James Hill and I'm J
0:33.3	Joffe and
0:22.0	James Heel and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Fraser Nelson.
0:24.4	Now a few hours after the last recording of Coffey House
0:27.4	Shots, Chris Kidmore announced his intention to resign from
0:29.8	Parliament and today he's formally done so.
0:31.8	Katie is now going to be a bi-election in
0:33.7	Kingswood talk us through the story. Yes as we had last week Chris Kidmore has
0:38.1	decided to quit now he had already said he was going to leave the comments. It was just a presumption and what he
0:45.0	suggested was that he was going to leave at the conventional time which would be the
0:49.8	time of the next election. Chris Kidmore is very unhappy about various things but in particular
0:56.1	a bill that's currently going through the comments on oil and gas licenses. Now the Tories
1:00.9	pitch this as about energy security one of the things they want to make a dividing line of labour, and as the idea of annually having these new licenses.
1:09.0	Chris Skidmore has decided that this is just the straw that breaks the camels back and said that he
1:14.6	planned to quit as an MP ASAP and to quit completely.
1:19.1	Rather than standard of hats as an independent, he is quitting and sparking a by-election today he's formally announced. is an
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