Will Red Wall MPs turn on Boris?

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🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

To keep Partygate alive, Dominic Cummings has released fresh accusations on his blog about Boris Johnson, who he claims knew about the parties taking place. The former chief advisor to the Prime Minister is prepared to swear under oath on this. As divisions in the Tory party are starting to show, a no confidence motion could be expected in days.

'There is a cat and mouse game where those loyal to the leader are trying smoke out potential rebels' - James Forsyth

All eyes are on Keir Starmer for PMQs tomorrow.

Katy Balls speaks to James Forsyth.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.
0:06.6	I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James of Seif and we are speaking from the House of Commons.
0:12.0	And James is interesting because I think there was a sense on Monday that things could be calming down slightly from Boris Johnson.
0:20.0	Then, as tends to happen with Partygate, as we know it, things all picked up again.
0:25.0	So a few things have happened.
0:26.1	We've had, I think probably if we're going to go in order, we've had a latest Dom bomb.
0:30.5	Talk us through what Dominic Cummings has now alleged as of Monday night.
0:34.1	So Dominic Cummings has updated his blog to say that Boris Johnson was undoubtedly kind of
0:39.6	warned that this gathering was a May 20th was a party and it shouldn't go ahead and that
0:46.4	those concerns were dismissed.
0:49.2	And I think the problem for number 10 there is not just the claim.
0:53.0	It's the fact that, you know,
0:54.8	they were trying to say to RMP's look for Sunday papers, didn't have any massive new
0:59.0	revelations, you know, wait for Sue Gray. They were, they, you know, Operation Red Meat was, yes,
1:04.9	it was been much mocked, but there was some talk about, you know, what they were doing
1:08.8	on, on freezing the BBC license fee and Nadine Dora
1:11.6	saying it would be the last one, the approach of small boats in the channel. So, we're going to
1:15.5	push the issue back. And today has been an odd day in Westminster because, you know, I think
1:21.8	most Tory MPs are still waiting for Sue Gray's report. And that is both good news and bad news for number 10.
1:29.9	The good news is that the remit of the Gray report is relatively tight. And therefore,
1:36.7	they will be able to just say, look, this report doesn't say that the prime minister,
1:40.2	doesn't say that the prime minister should resign, doesn't say that the prime minister knowingly
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