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Hello and welcome to Coffee Health Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

I'm Max Jeffrey and joined by Katie Bulls and James Forsyth.

Lord Geite, Boris Johnson's ethics advisor, resigned from his position last night.

Katie, Lord Geite's position has looked perilous for a while, hasn't it?

I think there's been signs of unhappiness from Lord Geite for a while now, as you mentioned.

This is quite interesting last night because governments are saying they've been taking

by surprise by this and I think we'll get into what the letter leads to and that might be what

they were surprised by, but I think in terms of generally speaking, I think if we go back

as far as wallpaper gate where Lord Geite was Johnson's second ethics advisor,

ultimately found a way to clear Boris Johnson and then later on these messages emerged,

these WhatsApp messages that Boris Johnson had not submitted. I think that was a clear point

when you could see there was frustration from Lord Geite and then I think more recently,

on Partigate, we saw Lord Geite raise frustrations and concerns as a fact that despite

receiving a fixed penalty notice, Boris Johnson had not raised, well, had any impact on the

ministerial code and then I think finally, also when it comes to the reforms to the system,

Lord Geite said in his report that he was frustrated that it being on the lower end of the scale

of ambitions in the sense that I think what Lord Geite wanted to see was a situation where he could

choose things or look at things to investigate of his own accord, rather than having to take

instruction that's not something the government went for. So I think there's been a few tensions

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