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Mar 22 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
As @BorisJohnson prepares for his grilling, @PaulGoodmanCH tells @BBCr4today Tory member opinion suggests "maybe his time has gone".

His latest @ConHome poll features in the latest #WaughOnPolitics
inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-…
That polling may reflect the mood among Tory MPs, and the wider public.

Support for Johnson seems to be deep but narrow.
Johnson's defence dossier showed a marked amount of focus, hard work and attention to detail.

Some Tory MPs just wish he'd showed those qualities in Government.
The full seatwarmer is here.

If you're not a subscriber to @theipaper, we have a superb special offer: £3 for 3 months.
inews.co.uk/subscribe

inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-…
🍿 And here's @janemerrick23's handy guide to the key differences between Johnson's evidence and the Privileges Committee's interim report

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
.@ChrisMasonBBC says BJ will 'kick the PM in the goolies' by voting against Windsor Framework in middle of partygate session.

But @RishiSunak timed this to show his MPs: 'here I am cleaning up Johnson’s mess, here he is showing why you booted him out'

inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-…
Now @trussliz is going to kick Sunak in the goolies too.
Her office says that after examining the detail of the Stormont Brake and Windsor Framework she has decided to vote against the Statutory Instrument this afternoon.

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Mar 22
.@BorisJohnson now says he was "told a couple of times by Sue Gray" that "the threshold of criminality" had not been reached.
And says Dominic Cummings "has every motive to lie".

Challenging MPs to believe either him or Cummings.
Johnson strongly denying the photos of him at leaving drinks - and their 'sinister pixellations' - prove he knew he was breaking the Covid guidance.

Says it is 'staggeringly implausible' that he would his invited official photographer to an 'illicit' gathering.
Now Johnson is going for Harman's previous "prejudicial" tweets, something he may have been advised not to put in his written submission.
But says that was part of the 'cut and thrust' and accepts her opening statement.
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Mar 22
Damning newly released evidence from Lee Cain. Johnson civil servant 'Party Marty' actually warned against cancelling a lockdown drinks party cos it would be "a communications risk".

Follow the latest on our @theipaper liveblog
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And as for how socially distanced these events were, new evidence shows one official saying doorway was so crammed they couldn't get out.
“I stood on tiptoes to see what was going on then tried to figure out how the hell to get out. It must have been about 4 deep."
Other evidence from No10 officials supports @BorisJohnson claim that he was repeatedly assured no rules were broken.

BUT the very people who claimed this - and whose job it was to respond to media Qs - were the ones who attended the leaving drinks.
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Mar 21
Away from Johnson/Partygate, @michaelgove in Commons Budget debate cites @edballs criticism of @Ed_Miliband £28bn/yr borrowing for green energy.
As Gove jibes that Balls was the man whom Miliband wanted to be his Chancellor, the ex Labour leader shakes his head
But @Ed_Miliband laughs derisively as Gove suggests his approval of a new coal mine in Cumbria will help the planet.
.@Ed_Miliband says that away from @michaelgove "pantomime" speech, the public will notice the lost severe hit to living standards for 168 years (and points out that before anyone blames Labour, the party wasnt even founded then)
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Mar 21
By a quirk of fate and timing, Boris Johnson makes his partygate defence 20 years after the invasion of Iraq.

Will Johnson's "dossier" on his Covid compliance prove as dodgy as those produced under Tony Blair on Saddam's WMD?

inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-…
Of course, Blair + Johnson are dissimilar in many ways (eg intelligence was withheld from Johnson as FSec).

But both rely on ultimately the same defence: of acting "in good faith" and not knowingly, deliberately misleading MPs + public.
By telling his supporters the inquiry is a “witchunt” and by extolling his record on the Covid vaccine, Brexit + Ukraine, will Tory MPs think Johnson is deploying his own weapons of mass distraction - to avoid the central claim that he actively tells untruths?
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Jan 17
Will Rishi Sunak dare to throw cold water on Jacob Rees-Mogg's Brexit bonfire of worker rights?

The latest #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox

inews.co.uk/opinion/rishi-…
The Govt's own independent Regulatory Policy Committee found the impact assessment of the Bill was "not fit for purpose", especially the impact on small
and micro businesses.
gov.uk/government/pub…
Chatter among MPs tonight is that Govt is so worried about the backlash from animal welfare, nature and other campaign groups that it may exempt environmental laws from the 'bonfire'.
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Dec 20, 2022
NHS staff often feel that they're letting patients down. That (totally undeserved) sense of guilt gnaws away at many of them.

But as nurses and ambulance staff prepare to strike, where's the guilt felt by ministers?

inews.co.uk/opinion/the-go…
Many people forget that we've been here before. I was a cub reporter in 1989 during the last ambulance strike and it's worth remembering that even Margaret Thatcher's government had to back down amid huge public support for NHS staff.
Back then, I met a Camden ambulance driver called Eric Roberts. A proud Liverpudlian (he'd fixed drums for Beatles in his youth) and sharp wit, he was a lovely man. Here's a piece I wrote for @HamandHigh.
"If our pay stays as low as it is, staff will leave in droves".
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