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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots for Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James LaSyne.

And we have news just in, courtesy of James' exclusive, that number 10 policy chief, Manera Merza, has quit her role.

James, why is that?

So she is, Minera Merza, who is ahead of a Down Street policy unit, she's workedza, has quit her role. James, why is that? So she is,

Minira Merza, who is head of a Down Street policy unit, she's worked with Boris Johnson for 14 years.

She has quit over his Jimmy Savile attack on Keir Starmer on Monday. She says, I believe it was

wrong for you to imply this week that Keir Starma's personally responsible for allowing Jimmy

Saville to escape justice. There was no fair or reasonable basis for that assertion. This was not the normal cut and thrust of politics. It was an inappropriate

and partisan reference to a horrendous case of child sex abuse. You tried to clarify your position

today, but despite my urging, you did not apologize for the misleading impression you gave.

And I think what this shows is how badly this Jimmy Sval line has gone down,

even with those who are hugely close to Boris Johnson. You know, Boris Johnson named Manero Mercer

as one of the five women in the world who had had the most profound influence on him.

And I think it also shows something else, Boris Johnson's inability to apologise.

That, you know, she says in her resignation letter that she had urged him to kind of

apologize, take the remark back. And he kind of half walked it back today, but didn't really.

I think that there is such upset about this remark, because, you know, Tories feel that it is such a

mistake. First of all, this is the worst possible moment for Boris Johnson to be arguing

that leaders are responsible for everything that happens in their organisation when you've got

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