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Coffee House Shots

What will the Tory rebels do next?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

It is the day after the night before when Boris Johnson narrowly survived a confidence vote. Today he held a meeting with the Cabinet to encourage his colleagues that it was time to ‘move on’.

‘This looks like a slow Tory suicide to me’ - Fraser Nelson

Some critics have pointed to the fact that shortly after winning a confidence vote with similar margins, John Major, Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May ended up resigning. What will be Boris Johnson's fate as the Tory rebels plot out their next moves?

Isabel Hardman is joined by Katy Balls, James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson.

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0:16.8

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,

0:18.7

the Spectators' Daily Politics podcast. I'm Isabelle Harman and I'm joined by Katie Bulls

0:23.2

and James Forsyth. So, James, how are things looking for Boris Johnson the day after?

0:30.0

His vote of confidence. So, Boris Johnson's held cabinet this morning and as he was saying,

0:36.1

it's the clip last night, he says, oh, now we can move on. I think anyone who is

0:40.7

wandered into the Westminster today would know that that isn't going to happen because all the

0:45.2

conversation is about, you know, what happens next, what maneuvers there might be to try and create

0:52.4

the opportunity for a vote. I mean, the other problem for him is it is hard to see what the good

0:58.3

news coming down the track for the government is. There are two biotexions coming up in about

1:02.6

a fortnight's time on June 23rd. One in Wakefield, Redwall seat, one from Labour for the first time

1:08.9

in a long time at the last election. You know, the expectation are that the Tories will lose that,

1:12.8

but lose that kind of in line with the national polling. And then there's another context,

1:17.6

I mean, it's more problematic for Boris Johnson in Tiverson, Honiton, in the West country,

1:22.8

where it is thought that quite spectacular 24,000 Tory majority could be overturned

1:27.7

and overturned quite comfortably by the Liberal Democrats. And I think that will create another set

1:31.9

of panic from Tory MPs. Now, two weeks from now is obviously, two to turn a bit weeks from now.

1:36.5

It's obviously too soon for to have another go at changing the leadership rules or another vote.

1:41.5

But I think he illustrates the problem, which is I think if you rerun the ballot today,

1:45.6

more Tory MPs would vote against Boris Johnson because simply because people now know how many of

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