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Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics podcast.

I'm Cindy U and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James O'Sythe.

So the last 24 hours have been a little bit confusing in terms of parliamentary procedure.

James, why don't you kick us off by just explaining what's happened because we last left off

the podcast yesterday with this motion that Labour had tabled which would promote this

kind of privileged committee investigation. But then the government gave an amendment. So what happened?

So Labour wanted this flight because they wanted to make every single Tory MP

take a position on this question. I mean one of the striking things since Boris Johnson received

this fixed penalty notice is how we haven't heard from most Tory MPs. We've heard from a few

Tory MPs, noisily calling them for go, a few Tory MPs very aggressively defending him.

But the vast bulk of Tory MPs have just tried to keep their heads down. And what Labour was saying

is right, we're going to make you all go on the record on this. Tory MPs weren't happy about this,

they could see how this was going to be used against them. So I was then kind of long

negotiation about what kind of amendment the government could put down.

Tory MPs didn't want to just vote against referring Boris Johnson to the providence committee

because they knew that they would then be attacked for trying to cover things up.

So last night the government published this amendment and it basically said that you would wait

for the sugray report to be published and then there would be another vote in the comments

on whether or not to refer Boris Johnson to the providence committee. And I think lots of Tory MPs

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