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

I'm Cindy U and I'm joined by Katie Bors and Frozen Nelson.

So it's inauguration day and this side of the pond, Theresa May has waded back into politics. Katie,

she says something today that's not so helpful to her successor, Boris Johnson, hasn't she?

Yes. So what we're about to see is a flurry of activity from the UK government as they attempt

to defend Joe Biden and his new aides, the new administration, because there are limits on what

you can really do in terms

direct contact, you can't really do at all, which while, you know, these people haven't been

sworn in. But I think unhelpfully, for Boris Johnson, what's happened is Theresa May has

penned an op-ed for the Daily Mail in which she has ultimately suggested that her successor,

Boris Johnson, has damaged Britain's standing on the

world stage. It suggests it's going to make it harder. Biden should be a good ally, but will

Boris Johnson be able to make it work? And listing the reasons that Boris Johnson should be frowned

upon, she looks at, A, I think the internal market bill, so breaking international law,

and then secondly

differed to the international aid and the reduction, which the Chancellor has announced, Boris Johnson

has supported it, that is a government action, though the vote is yet to happen and the commons

yet. So there are two elements to that. One, which is obviously trying to make the UK or the UK

government look bad for that

decision, but two, we're still to get that vote to the parliamentary party. So it adds to a bit of

unease. Is there going to be a size of rebellion? Fraser, when Theresa May left office, I think a lot of

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