Who wants Boris back?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Katy Balls speaks to Fraser Nelson and Paul Goodman.
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| 0:19.6 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots' Spectators' daily politics podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Katie Bulls, I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and Paul Goodman of Conservative Home. |
| 0:29.3 | So it's shaping up to be a big week when it comes to Boris Johnson's future. |
| 0:33.7 | Tomorrow we have the Privileges Committee appearance over Partigate and I can tell you now |
| 0:39.5 | there will be a live blog on the Spectator website to take you through every twist and turn of the |
| 0:43.5 | full four hours. ahead of that the Prime Minister's evidence which was released yesterday to the |
| 0:50.0 | committee was not published immediately to the upset of Boris Johnson's biggest supporters |
| 0:54.9 | has now been made public. The Prime Minister says that he did mislead MPs with his comments |
| 1:00.4 | in Partigate but he did not do so intentionally or recklessly. Fraser, in advance and over the |
| 1:06.7 | weekend we've had lots of noise from, as Boris Johnson said, about bombshell texts that we |
| 1:11.5 | clear his name, looking over the evidence which is coming just before we started recording. |
| 1:16.4 | It doesn't feel so there is anything particularly bombshell, it's more what he wasn't told. |
| 1:21.5 | Yes and whether he could plausibly deny any knowledge of his parties and you know anybody |
| 1:26.6 | who knows Boris knows but when he was editing this magazine he could plausibly deny knowledge |
| 1:30.7 | of the own lunches that he organised. He just doesn't tend to stay on top of these things |
| 1:34.6 | sometimes he wouldn't turn up for these lunches despite being the host. |
| 1:37.8 | So this is his modus operandi and I find this the trial of Boris Johnson as it effectively is |
| 1:45.2 | rather strange because I don't, it's like he's had his punishments, he has been found guilty |
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