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🗓️ 5 February 2022
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0:17.9 | Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. |
0:21.9 | If the magic number of 54 letters of no confidence is hit, what happens next? |
0:27.1 | How do no confidence vote work? |
0:29.2 | And what are the dynamics we expect to see at play? |
0:32.0 | To discuss that, I'm joined by James Seifon, Fraser Nelson. |
0:35.8 | James, to begin, talk us through what happens if 54 letters goes in. |
0:41.1 | Does Graham Brady come out of his office and give an announcement? |
0:45.2 | What scenes can we expect to see? |
0:46.8 | So if 54 letters are reached, Graham Brady, the chairman of 922 committee will announce that they've been reached |
0:51.5 | and that there will be a no-confidence ballot of Tory MPs. |
0:54.8 | Will he do that on TV or will he step outside his office? |
0:57.5 | Gates of Parliament? |
0:58.4 | I suspect, you know, um, tweet or a, uh, an Instagram story style politician. |
1:05.9 | But then the timing of this, there aren't firm rules about. |
1:09.5 | Theresa May wanted a very quick contest. So that took place within 24 hours of the letters |
1:13.0 | been reached. They were voting the next day in her no-confidence ballot. |
1:16.3 | It's up to the Prime Minister. |
1:17.9 | I think it is up to a negotiation between the Prime Minister and the 1922 Committee. |
1:21.9 | I think there is an interesting debate about which one Boris Johnson's circle will want. |
1:26.1 | Some of Boris Johnson supporters are kind of very up for it. |
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