To have your cake
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
"He was ambushed by a cake," said Conor Burns MP earlier this week, when asked about Boris Johnson's apparent birthday gathering in 2020: the PM's latest Partygate woe. But on this week's Chopper's Politics the Northern Ireland Minister joins Christopher Hope and makes a stunning revelation - there was no cake at all! He gives an impassioned defence of the PM, and tells listeners why he should stay as the top dog in Downing Street (with the greatest of respect to Dilyn, of course).
Also on the podcast: Sir John Redwood, MP for Wokingham and former head of Thatcher's policy unit, tells us why it’s time for the Prime Minister to take a leaf out of the Iron Lady's book, and the Telegraph's Nataliya Vasilyeva and Lucy Fisher break down the simmering tensions between Russia and Ukraine, and the implications for the UK.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Chopper's Politics. |
| 0:05.0 | What is the birthday party without a cake? |
| 0:07.0 | A meeting. |
| 0:08.0 | Gosh. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor, and this is Chopper's Politics. |
| 0:18.0 | Well, it's D-Day, aka Decision Time for Tory MPs this weekend. Time to decide if they will back Boris Johnson, |
| 0:27.8 | even if Sue Gray, Whitehall's party finder in chief, doesn't. And while at one point this week it wasn't |
| 0:36.0 | looking rosy for the Prime Minister the vultures aren't circling quite just yet in |
| 0:41.7 | Whitehall. |
| 0:42.8 | There are reports of around a hundred Tory MPs |
| 0:46.0 | vowing to support Boris Johnson. |
| 0:48.0 | The Guard Hound's in Operation Save Big Dog, if you will. But where are the rest? So I invited a close friend of Boris Johnson, |
| 0:57.2 | Connor Burns, an old Northern Island minister to the Red Line pub to ask him just that. and you may have heard his voice already this |
| 1:04.8 | week. He was in a sense ambushed with a cake. So he pulled up a chair at my |
| 1:09.9 | favorite table in the Red Lion pub a stone throw from 10 Downing Street. |
| 1:14.6 | Connor Burns, welcome to Choppers Politics. |
| 1:18.0 | Delighted to be here. |
| 1:18.7 | I'm going to ambush you with a Choppers Politics mug. |
| 1:20.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:21.6 | It's much better than being ambushed by cake. How is the PM? |
| 1:26.0 | He's in good form. He is busy getting on with the job. During the week you saw him in the House |
| 1:32.4 | Commons making a statement on the the perilous |
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