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involves risk. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Heel and I'm joined

today by Michael Gove and Tim Shipman. Now this week, Tim, it's been a pretty bad week for both

the main parties. It's been a big MRP Times poll out the first since the election and it shows that reformer on course

to win 270 seats, Labour down to 178, the Tories down just 46. So, I mean, who's having a

worst week, Keir Stahmer or Kemi Badernock? Well, I think the simple answer to that question

is probably Keir Stalmer, he's the Prime Minister. He only 24 hours ago was talking about noises off in his own party over the welfare rebellion. Well, the noises are loud enough now that Downing Street was sticking out press releases at gone midnight, basically explaining that they're going to have to make some changes and back down a bit.

So in terms of the sort of raw politics of the week, I think Stama's having a worse one.

But as we've covered in the magazine and as this MRP poll shows, there are a heck of a lot of

medium-term jitters in the Conservative Party as well. And I think really the story of this poll

is that

Nigel Farage has got himself in a position where it's no longer a long shot that he's

prime minister and we're somewhere between a possibility and a probability. And that's bad news

for both main parties, both of whom have sort of immediate problems and the potential for them to

get worse in the months ahead.

Michael, do you agree with that analysis?

I do. So I think that what the poll confirms is that the Conservative Party is in deep difficulties, but it confirms that. So essentially over the last few months, it's been clear

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