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Hello and welcome to coffee house shots.

I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by the Spectators political

that Sir Katie Bulls and Chris Hopkins-opkin

and Santa polling.

Now Katie, it's the first day back after those local elections which

she discussed on here before, but it's's Tuesday now what's the mood like in

Parliament as everyone digests those results from the weekend?

So I think it does feel pretty calm it feels as low despite all the excited talk from the anonymous

plotters that you know this was going to be the

point by which they might move you had some anonymous plotters saying they were

going to the pub on Friday that was a very interesting development and but, you know, so it felt as though those agitating

from outside parliament had decided

that they did not have enough parliamentary support.

And I think we've always had some skepticism of the plotters to be fair.

But what's always been more important than perhaps what a few anonymous figures think

is what MPs make the results. And I think the sense in the Tory party after a weekend of results is that things are looking pretty bleak in terms of those results.

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