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🗓️ 4 February 2022
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0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots of Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Forsyfe. Yesterday we spoke about the departure of Minera Merza after James Versafe revealed the news on Coffee House. Since then, there have been several more resignations at the time of recording that is 1211 on Friday there have been four more |
0:38.5 | James when we break these down we had a situation last night where three figures resigned |
0:44.3 | from Downing Street after Manera so jack doyle martin Reynolds and dan rosenfield and this is where it |
0:52.0 | starts to get a little bit confusing because these are resignations that Boris Johnson wanted to happen |
0:57.1 | and thinks could win over MPs. |
0:59.4 | So, yeah, so Minera Merza resigned over Boris Johnson's refusal to kind of withdraw |
1:03.4 | for Jimmy Saville bar at Kirstama. |
1:06.1 | I think number 10 saw how big that story was playing |
1:10.2 | and this Jimmy Sapple thing is something |
1:11.7 | that has caused discomfort to a lot of Tory MPs. And so he decided that if they were going to |
1:17.1 | make changes to the Downing Street, they might as well pull them forward anyway. So we then had |
1:21.0 | three more departures, Jack Doyle, Dan Rosenfeld and Martin Reynolds. And Boris Johnson's shadow... |
1:28.2 | The Director of Communications. |
1:30.2 | The Chief of Staff and the Principal Private Secretary, |
1:32.1 | who's the most important civil servant in Downing Street. |
1:34.9 | And Boris Johnson's Shadow Whipping Operation were then flooded out |
1:38.1 | to try and tell MPs, you know, |
1:39.9 | he told you he would make changes to Downing Street |
1:41.7 | at the Meeting Parliamentary Party on Monday. |
1:43.9 | Here they are, here they're coming. I, the problem is that these changes were meant to show |
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