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Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots Aspectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Katie Bours and I'm joined by Isra Hardman and James Versailles.

On ease is growing in the Conservative Parliamentary Party when it comes to

nomad hens handling of the complaints about Chris Pincher. James, what's the latest?

So, number 10 have kind of shifted their line today which is to say that they were

aware of allegations previously and obviously the fact that he had resigned over a similar issue

before but the allegations they were aware of were unsubstantiated and so couldn't block

his promotion. Now, I mean the problem with this as an argument is that ministerial promotions

are at the gift of the Prime Minister. This is not what any woman recognises,

a kind of pure employment process, you know. I mean, you know, the Prime Minister regularly and

frequently in not just this Prime Minister but all Prime Ministers, they promote allies,

they demote enemies, you know, all of this stuff. So, it wasn't like they were in a situation where

they had to make Chris Pincher deputy chief wit because he had applied for the job and

you know, they'd have had an employment tribunal on their hands if they hadn't. I mean,

that doesn't work. I mean, one of the other problems for the government is that you can't get

round two things. One, Chris Pincher, unlike Neil Parish, was important to the Boris Johnson

operation. He was important to that shadow whipping operation. He's been important in recent

months as the deputy chief wit. The second thing that you can't get around is that they made a

decision. Now, you can say in their defences the decision that Theresa May also made when she

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