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🗓️ 28 January 2022
⏱️ 136 minutes
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0:00.0 | Good morning. It's three minutes after 10 and if you have come here in the hope of finding some clarity |
0:05.1 | and incisive commentary from me on the current state of affairs regarding the Sue Gray report |
0:10.6 | and the Metropolitan Police Inquiry into the countless parties undertaken at Downing Street |
0:15.5 | in direct contravention of the laws written in Downing Street, then you may be disappointed, |
0:20.1 | but fear not. |
0:21.7 | History suggests that my callers will come galloping to the rescue of both of us, you and me, |
0:25.9 | on this one. So stay tuned for that. There is some good news, I suppose. |
0:30.9 | Despite the best efforts of the Daily Mail and the maddest fringes of both newspaper and social media. I haven't yet, excuse me, I haven't |
0:41.8 | yet encountered anyone arguing that this is no big deal and we should all move on who isn't |
0:46.0 | wearing a red nose, a rotating bow tie and unfeasibly enormous shoes. But that will change. |
0:52.7 | This is how Johnson operates. And I, I, |
0:55.2 | it is incredible, isn't it? I know it's used this analogy more than probably any other in my |
1:01.3 | broadcasting career, but sitting in the crowd, standing in the crowd, shouting, look, he's naked. |
1:05.7 | Let me show you how, let me prove to you that he's naked and still having people alongside you or behind you in the crowd |
1:13.5 | insisting that he's wearing the most magnificent of robes. This is how Boris Johnson operates. |
1:18.3 | This is how he has spent his entire life. He does appalling things, either consciously and deliberately |
1:25.9 | or simply by dint of being lazy and not caring about anything. |
1:30.2 | He does appalling things. |
1:31.9 | When consequences come calling, he tries to laugh it off, he tries to deny it, he tries to shrug it off, |
1:39.0 | he tries to blame it on other people. |
1:41.0 | He usually gets away with it. |
1:42.6 | When he doesn't get away with it, he gets fired, |
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