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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Recyphon, Isabel Hardman.

And leading the news today is the number 10 flat refurbishment.

Isabel, can you give us a bit of an update here?

Because the story has been rattling around for some time.

Initially, it was Simon Walters leading the charge, almost a solo charge in the Daily Mail,

based on the idea that the funding towards it had been hidden from the public and actually

who had paid for it number one. Now we know that Boris Johnson is paying for it, has paid for

it. But the thing everyone is interested in is what happened before, who paid for originally.

So where are we at?

So the reports have been that Boris Johnson was given a loan by CCHQ Conservative Central

Office to finance part of this refurbishment and that he has now paid this money back.

Now there is some confusion over when this money was paid

back and whether the loan is going to be declared in what everyone involved is saying in the

usual way. There is this review that's taking place that's being led by Simon Case, a cabinet

secretary which he revealed yesterday and James reported on on coffee house but one thing that

has sort of resurfaced in the past 24 hours and I'd be surprised if labour didn't start to

hammer this a little bit harder given the conversations I've been having over the past few hours

is this quote john lewis nightmare It's been around for a couple of

months now, hasn't it? It was in a Tatler article that one of the reasons they wanted to do this

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