What's behind the social care rebellion?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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It has been a challenging week for Boris. Following the Peppa Pig speech, immediately after the Owen Paterson u-turn, the party may be starting to lose patience. This could have implications for the government's future, shown most recently by the rebellion on the social care bill. Many MPs did a ‘no show’ and the government’s majority fell from 77 to 26.

'When the majority looks under threat, the personal loyalty disappears quite quickly' - Isabel Hardman

Is the rebellion a reflection of Boris losing support from his party? Or were there other issues to consider?

Katy Balls speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management, award-winning wealth managers who go above and beyond to support and guide you.
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0:15.7	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots and Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.
0:20.0	I'm Katie Bors and I'm joined by James
0:21.7	Forsythe and Isabel Hardman. So Boris Johnson's week didn't go up to a great start with his speech to the CBI, since then he's given a few more public appearances.
0:32.7	But James, one of the things that I think most of the papers are focusing on today is this idea that
0:38.6	the Prime Minister is chaotic and this fits into a pattern. Can you talk us through what's going on?
0:44.5	So it's now kind of three weeks on from word getting out where the government was going to try and
0:48.9	stave a Standards Committee verdict against Eurham Patterson. That was something that was clearly a bad
0:53.8	idea at the time.
0:54.9	And it's turned out to be an even worse idea, perhaps, than even its critics fought at the time.
1:00.0	It's created a massive backlash for the government. I think this week presented, you know,
1:04.2	Tory MPs were kind of hoping that the ship would be steadied. Instead, the opposite happened.
1:09.1	Boris Johnson went to the North East to give a speech
1:11.3	to a CBI conference. And it was one of his speeches where everything went wrong that could go
1:16.9	wrong. And he lost his place in the speech. And because he lost his place in the speech, the kind of
1:22.4	rest of the speech is cast into a particularly unflattering light. And I think the part of the
1:26.4	problem at the moment is Boris Johnson is trying to give a particular speech almost regardless of the audience. It is very
1:32.5	much a classic Boris Johnson speech, which is, you know, half day telegraph column, half
1:38.6	afternoon address, with lots of jokes. It just isn't always right to every audience. You know, you're talking to people
1:44.9	who went to the Centre Policy Studies Conference where he tried to give essentially that speech.
1:49.2	People there liked it because it was a kind of end of conference speech. It was what they needed.
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