Will Tory MPs rebel in partygate vote?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
'Tory MPs are sick to the back teeth of partygate now' - James Forsyth.
All to be discussed as Katy Balls speaks to James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson.
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| 0:16.8 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, |
| 0:18.4 | the Spectators' Daily Politics Broadcast. I'm Katie Bauer and I'm going to |
| 0:21.8 | be phrased in our synonym, James Versailles. So Boris Johnson apologised this week in the |
| 0:27.7 | comments after receiving a fixed penalty notice. James, in the immediate aftermath, we had Mark Harper, |
| 0:35.1 | ultimately called for him to go, but generally speaking, it was a fairly calm response. |
| 0:39.8 | Boris Johnson addressed MPs last night. What did he have to say? And was it a rather different tone |
| 0:45.1 | than the chamber? Yeah, as one attendee said to me, the kind of glove came off at the 22. It was |
| 0:50.8 | much more pugnacious, he bashed Labour, and it wasn't the kind of road to connoisseur humble |
| 0:58.6 | apology that you saw in the chamber. Instead, it was going to be much more fighting if you like. |
| 1:04.8 | I think in a worrying sign for him, though, the only time at which he came close to losing the room |
| 1:12.9 | was I'm told when Craig Whittaker, one of the MPs who said that Boris Johnson should |
| 1:17.9 | go over the party gate. They said, look, why don't you spare everyone the agony of this vote on |
| 1:24.1 | whether or not to refer you to the Privages Committee for having over whether or not you misled |
| 1:28.9 | the House, but just refer yourself. Make sure that colleagues don't have to march through the division |
| 1:34.4 | lobby, something that everyone knows that Labour is going to use to attack them. And Boris Johnson |
| 1:39.3 | talked a bit, you mentioned Chris Bryant, who has now actually recused himself from the |
| 1:43.6 | investigation about having it at the time. There is awareness about Tory MPs about what they're |
| 1:49.9 | going to be asked to do tomorrow. I was very struck this morning calling around Tory MPs, |
| 1:55.3 | but nearly all of them used the word exhausted to describe their state. This is striking |
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