Who will be the PM's next ethical compass?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:21.5 | Hello and welcome to Special Saturday additional coffee house shots. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm Katie Boerles and I'm joined by James Versailles and Sir Anthony Seldon. |
| 0:28.9 | Now this week Boris Johnson lost his second ethics advisor since entering 10 Downing Street. |
| 0:35.4 | Lord Geith handed in his notice, raising his frustrations over party gate. |
| 0:40.7 | We've already seen hints of his frustrations over wallpaper gate, |
| 0:44.1 | but he said the real trigger for him choosing to leave was down to another matter |
| 0:49.0 | when it came to the steel industry as what has been reported since then. |
| 0:53.2 | James Boris Johnson is now about an ethics advisor and there are signs that he may not |
| 0:57.7 | recruit a new one or they say that you know the pressure of the job has been too much |
| 1:02.1 | for one individual so they might spread out out among the panel. |
| 1:04.5 | Now you could suggest the cynic way is just other ways you could reduce the pressure |
| 1:08.4 | on the one individual doing the job. Is that the behavior of the minister? |
| 1:12.6 | Indeed. I think the challenge I don't you saw this. |
| 1:16.4 | So first of all I think Lord Geith has quit over this issue about the trade remedies authority |
| 1:21.8 | but I think it's quite clear from his resignation letter but this was the straw that |
| 1:25.6 | broke the camel's back rather than he being completely content in his job and then suddenly |
| 1:29.8 | this thing came along and he decided he had to go and I think there is a challenge here. |
| 1:34.0 | I think you highlighted this in your piece on his departure which is in his annual review |
| 1:38.5 | of his job he did say that he thought the government's proposed changes to it were at the |
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