Tories face ninth by-election – are they ruined?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The Conservative MP Chris Pincher has resigned following the Commons decision to refuse his suspension appeal. Follow Nadine Dorries's most recent resignation, this means the government faces their 9th by-election since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister – can they come back from this? Also on the podcast, Oscar Edmondson speaks to James Heale and Isabel Hardman about Rishi Sunak's move to rejoin the EU Horizon Project and the latest on the UK-India trade deal.

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0:22.0	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.
0:26.4	I'm Oscar Edmondson and I'm joined today by Isabel Hardman and James Heal.
0:30.8	So the big news in Westminster's day is that Chris Pincher has resigned as an MP and this comes
0:36.0	after he lost his appeal against a common suspension. Now I think everyone saw this coming but
0:42.1	Isabel could you start by maybe explaining to us sort of taking us back to that night at the
0:46.2	Carlton Club and going through what those allegations were that have been made against Chris Pincher?
0:51.1	Yeah so this was the final incident that was the sort of last straw really for a lot of MPs
0:59.6	with Boris Johnson's premiership because he did not respond to Chris Pincher being accused
1:10.3	of groping two men at the Carlton Club and then resigning as deputy chief whip in the way
1:16.3	that most conservative MPs had expected him to. They felt that he firstly didn't suspend Pincher
1:23.6	as a Tory MP quickly enough that there was a sense that the claims were it not being belittled,
1:33.6	not being dealt with sufficiently seriously enough and it became very clear and very quickly
1:42.0	through a variety of sources that Johnson had known that Pincher had allegedly problematic
1:49.0	behaviour and there were quotes like Pincher by name Pincher by nature that the former prime minister
1:54.9	was alleged to have produced before appointing him to the role of deputy chief whip which as well
2:01.6	as being obviously an important government role is also role concerned with pastoral care and
2:07.5	discipline so possibly the worst job you could give to somebody who you were also calling Pincher
2:13.2	by name Pincher by nature. So this hastened the end of Boris Johnson's premiership it was
2:18.7	something that his allies were still very bitter about in the days after Johnson resigned saying that
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