Tories scramble to defend Johnson: Politics Weekly podcast

Politics Weekly UK

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🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Jessica Elgot is joined by Zoe Williams and Sonia Sodha to make sense of the chaos at No 10 Downing Street. Peter Walker, Helena Smith and Jon Henley discuss the pressure European leaders are under to get people travelling again this summer. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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0:28.6	This message was paid for by tamnavool and single malt whiskey.
0:36.8	TheGuardian.
0:40.0	With one week to go until the local elections, the Prime Minister is probably wishing
0:43.6	he hadn't poked the bear.
0:45.3	I'm Jessica Elgott's deputy political editor of TheGuardian, and this is Politics Weekly.
0:50.3	What do we get from this Prime Minister and this Conservative
0:58.6	government?
0:59.6	Dodgy contracts, jobs for their mates and cash for access, and who's at the heart of
1:04.6	it?
1:05.6	The Prime Minister major sleaze sitting there.
1:10.4	Following a nuclear blog post from Boris Johnson's former top adviser dominant Cummings,
1:14.8	the PM is now facing multiple claims of impropriety.
1:18.6	So where to start?
1:20.6	First, there's the home decor issue.
1:24.3	Days after Cummings claimed that there were plans to have donors secretly pay for renovations.
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