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Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Trunks.

I'm James Scythe and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator

and Katie Walls for Deputy Political Editor of The Spectator.

And guess what we're discussing this week? Boris Johnson and can he survive?

Katie, you wrote the magazine's cover story this week. I'm the headline survivor, you know,

addressing this very question. As you sit back at the end of this week,

how do you think it has gone for Boris Johnson? And do you think his chance of surviving

have increased or decreased as the week has gone on?

Yeah, I think at this point it's probably worth pointing out that while the magazine front has

the word survivor, it also has Boris Johnson with one leg depicted as the black knight who, you know,

these, I think to most others you would imagine they would have left the pitch by now,

but they are still going in the face of all the challenges and all the criticism.

We can probably share with a listener's Katie that there was some debate over that, right?

Well, where, you know, if you put the word survivor, are you tempting fate, could he be gone

with the week end? Because we are still living in a period where anything could happen, right? He

could be gone in any sort of three or four day period. It's so difficult to predict, but we thought

that if we do the Monty Python black knight and Colin survivor, there's enough irony there.

And also it gets across, I suppose, that he keeps in the same way that Monty Python's black knight

would lose an arm in a leg and still keeps on saying, ah, it is but a scratch, nothing wrong with me.

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