Coffee House Shots

Have Tory MPs finally had enough?

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In This Episode

Boris Johnson has finally commented on the accusations of a Downing Street garden party held in the first lockdown. Yet his defence – ‘I believed implicitly that this was a work event’ – has satisfied nobody.

On the episode, James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman give their verdict. ‘When I started my career I spent a lot of time in magistrates courts and I have to say, I’ve heard better ones from people who were drunk who were defending themselves in Portsmouth Magistrates Court’, Isabel says. And for James, the problem was Boris Johnson’s own party – ‘The Tory benches were almost totally silent’. Can these MPs really defend Boris Johnson to their constituents, and what happens to this Prime Minister if they can’t?

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