What are the plans to reform Commons rules?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
‘I think if you go down this route of essentially banning all these outside interests, we’re going to end up with far more people of inherited wealth in the House of Commons, who don’t need to earn any other money, and I think you will lose some knowledge and expertise.’ - James Forsyth
...How Conservatives pick their peers, and even Lords reform. But how did it come to this? Who should have told Boris that last week's actions and reactions were bad politics?
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| 0:24.9 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm Katie Bors and I'm joined by James Recipher, Fraser Nelson. |
| 0:31.4 | So the Tory slees rumbles on. |
| 0:37.1 | Owen Patterson may have quit the Commons, but it doesn't mean the issue has left the Commons floor. |
| 0:37.9 | Today there will be an emergency debate, And we're starting to see the various ways in which this story will continue. So |
| 0:43.7 | there's talk of House of Lords reform, there's questions about whether Boris Johnson could face |
| 0:48.4 | an investigation on the refurbishment of the number 10 flat. And then there's general, I suppose, |
| 0:53.7 | angst amongst the Tory party still |
| 0:55.2 | about bruising days and James I suppose to start there is a poll out today which puts labour |
| 1:01.1 | in front yes it's an Ipsos mori poll for the stand that it has labour on 36 to tories down |
| 1:06.0 | quite a few points to 35 now most of the field work for this was carried out before this scandal. So I think we can't |
| 1:13.4 | yet say we are seeing an effect. But I think it is always worth remembering that the Tory |
| 1:18.5 | policy relationship with Boris Johnson is very transactional. It's basically you are a winner, |
| 1:22.2 | therefore we follow you. And I think any sense that that winningness is not as true anymore has been diluted will make, you know, party management, which is not one of his downing streets fortays, you know, even more difficult. |
| 1:34.9 | As you say, there's a Lib Dem called debate today on slees in the chamber. |
| 1:39.6 | Interestingly, Boris Johnson is perhaps unsurprisingly not going to be responding to the government. |
| 1:44.0 | Instead, he's on a responding to the government. Instead, |
| 1:44.3 | he's on a trip to the North England. And strikingly, Jacob Brees-Mogg, the leader of |
| 1:49.1 | House Commons isn't either. It's going to be Steve Barkley, the Cabinet Office Minister, |
| 1:51.9 | who has drawn the short straw. Over the weekend, Fraser, we had George Eustace, the Environment |
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