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Hello and welcome to this Easter edition of Coffee House Shots.

Boris Johnson has been dubbed the Teflon candidate and so far he is living up to the name.

As a new MP he was sacked from the government by Michael Howard when he lied about his affair

with Pechenella Wyatt before that he'd gotten into trouble for inaccurate reporting at the times.

Yet he still won two terms as the mayor of London before returning to government,

becoming foreign secretary, being backed up by Michael Gove, yet still eventually becoming

Prime Minister. It now looks like he may well survive this latest scandal at least for now,

being fined by the Metropolitan Police for breaking his own lockdown rules.

So is he lucky? Or is there some methods to this madness? I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie

Balls and Isabel Hardman. So Isabel, what do you think? What is the secret to Boris Johnson's

political survival so far? I think it's that he's a winner or has been up to this point and that's

why Conservative MPs decided to elect him their leader in 2019 because they thought they would

get a stonking majority in the next election and they did and for a lot of them it was a very

transactional decision. It wasn't, you know, I agree with his conservative values or I just see him

as the kind of person who I'd like to be. I mean so many of them would say you know he's got a

bizarre personal life and you know there's lots of distasteful things about him but he does win.

Which I think says a lot about the Conservative Party which is that you know it's a winning

vehicle and rather than a sort of moral crusade in the way that the Labour Party often can be.

But that's one of the reasons he's managed to get away with it. I think he's also someone who

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