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blanketed in a layer of ash which is also contaminated drinking water. and 8 official says most buildings on 3 outer islands have been destroyed. at least 3 people are known to have died. the u. k. prime minister has faced more calls the step down after allegations of corona virus rule breaking, and m p from his ruling conservative party defected to the opposition. moments before boris johnson appeared in parliament after a series of bruising questions from labors leader, one of johnson's former cabinet ministers told him, in the name of god go, he is accused of attending parties and is official home. when gatherings were band because of lockdown. and coming up next, the stream will actually look at that story more detail and ask where their party gates will finish, or is johnson? ah

ah, i us, i me. okay. you're watching the stream, the calls for british prime minister boys johnson to step down all getting louder. revelations, about a series of government officials voting penalties. coup lee, the downfall of the prime minister. you chief is open. join our conversation on youtube. could a party gate finish boyce johnson. that is the question. i will do my best to get your analysis into that asia was done so may still be able to survive a current political stall. but that doesn't mean that they support the 40 and the

leadership really had within the conservative party will remain the same. there will be a lot of conservative pays, he speaking to their constituents and think that actually perhaps that seats are in danger. as a result of this, if there's more allegations down the line, if the report is coming out funds, birth johnson to be guilty of any wrong doing that, i do think we could see the prime minister either resigning or force to resign by his own m p. 's, let's move your paddle, hello, ashley. tom and i need really good to have a few of you with us to date and quality. ponder tre already and stand by for that . ash welcome to the screen. please introduce yourself to apple. i will audience. i am ash soccer, i'm contributing as a media and i'm right here in nice to had he told me it's been a while since he had on the stream. welcome back. we might already. it's hey, you are what you day. yeah. hi, my name is tom. all i'm the to correspond. luke usa tv channel here in the u. k.

nice to haven't had, i may even want to have to say, i need to know exactly who need me is. if you haven't me was about to tell you welcome. i am the broker out there as presenter and correspondent braced in our european woke our center here in london. i guess. let's start with david davis . he's a conservative m p, a former minister. this is what he said on wednesday to in question time have a listen. have a look. unlike many on these benches, i spend weeks and months defending the prime minister against often angry constituents. i reminded them of his success and delivery breakfast, and many other things. but i expect my leaders, he shoulder the responsibility for the actions they take. yesterday. he did the

opposite of that. so i'll remind him of a quotation altogether too familiar to him of leo, a murray. to neville chamberlain. you sat there too long for all the good you have done in the name of god. go back to what do you make of that? so direct lot sitting on the fence, so direct and so historic. the words of leo amory in 1940 brought about the town full of metal chamberlain grinning about winston churchill time as prime minister. that was an event that happened in the house of commons. and indeed that itself was a quote of a former lord protector of england. oliver cromwell, who dismissed one of his parliaments with the words in the name of god, go so really evoking a hundreds of years old tradition within parliament are really quite powerful statement. and one that was punctuating an interesting prime ministers question

because of course this prime minister question time, where the prime minister walked in only 5 minutes beforehand. a member of parliament defected from the conservative party to the opposition party to the labor party. this had a really interesting effect in the mood of the chamber to some extent. you notice a lot of the empties behind or is johnson who might not be. so a few sit in the court. of course, johnson just a few hours earlier, a saw in effect to the real enemy was this intervention from david davis. a former cabinet minister, a senior back bench conservative and p seemed a little bit out of whack with what the rest of the conservative seem to be doing, which was rallying around 4 strokes in order to a greater degree. and they were doing even just a few hours before. and as i'm just going to play at the moment where conservative m p crossed the floor into the labor ranks. you can see

like that. i am wondering what you made of polish johnson's den. now how he's handling himself under pressure, ash or johnston is usually somebody who comes across to miss the founding. absolutely fits in with energy and usually looks like the kinds of politician to confirm almost any lie with a little bit. and i said, well, this is very silly that the mean has only completely evaporated this week. we have tina or johnson, i think genuine the quite taken. because his friends on the conservative party, which look up the lately unbreakable off is delivering that last live in the 2019 general election is now the week by the day, the significance of this and a christian who wake bird proofing the floor really can't be overstated. what this

does is that the mutiny in 4th party is really coming from all side. you have to tell you that davis is known as what you know, he's known as a grand de, between the oldest take us some of the, in your see someone who is the sort of lead you were mc 3 parliament started and what, what, and then you've got christian white, who is a new intake and he won his seat from labor on a very slim majority of the 400 fight in 2019. and he's the 1st to see, i don't, i could lose my lovely a 1080000 pound the job in the general election. i got to do something i could put between myself that a prime minister in time a. i'm out on both sides with a policy to the women that the again, the name is hard to believe this. this is all come from a series of policies and not even nationally recent policies, probably 2 months ago. yeah, i mean, over the last week,

nearly day by day we've been hearing more more about the breaking of rules, allegedly by stuff on the bar as johnston parties that may have taken place at 10 down the street or indeed of other government departments. if we thought it was bad enough, we bought something last wednesday having to apologize for attending a garden party at a official residence in number 10 will. since then, we've heard about double leaving dues at 10 downing street, where officials may have been sent down to supermarkets to buy more boos. of d. j is being hired a parties happening on the eve of the funeral. if the duke of edinburgh, when the country with the national morning, it has been really quite astonishing boys johnson, quite sullen on monday during interviews, but i think in parliament today the ticker is johnson was back doing his best to deflect attention away from all of these allegations swirling around him. nice.

when you told your trip follows that you were going to be on today's program. what discussion was newton. henry said this on twitter. he should step down. this is boyce johnson, because if this honorable not to lead by example, the concept of boys johnson actually resigning himself without being pushed me. could you even imagine that would happen quite simply? no, this is a man who is a political survivor is a teflon politician, a man who has made it very much, a part of his political career to skirt around can control the sea to get people on the side to cajole and convince where possible. the idea that he should wholeheartedly admit defeat and fallen his sword seems all both of thinkable right now this appears that this particular moment in time to be a man who will fight this to the bitter end. does looking at some, all sorts here on twitter, alex, he needs to go. the lives of plowed up to high,

not forget the horror story. that is the covey response. let alone breaks it. one more tweet here and 7 tech. i think it would be best for him to resign before he is forced to go ash. what is the feeling in the u. k. about maurice johnson resigning? i'm looking at some polls and he's his popularity has gone so far down. it's even below to reasons maze who was below 50 percent of favorability was a public thinking. but you make a very good point, nathan, me, which is the poll i was, i wrote story, which is that labor or writing high the concert emerging, who i'm exploring a whole new getting a dropping in those radical the, there's northern and midland state. they want to flavor in 2019, make more constructive and worry about their own a future bearing chris, and of course, the few of the consensus parliamentary majority, the other things,

keep an eye on this coming up in focus groups because the mood has really turned against or there's been focus groups being wrong by p. o, you know, form it down the street from list what things that he's a liar, he's a counselor because beach brought this and more than that, the conservative is being diminished by continued both the ation with prime minister, 4th johnson. but these are the kinds of change which could get more n. he's write the letters and what was the 1920 committee, which is our huge breakout. it's talent to a conservative party. lead you right brain, brady candle left to really know why this is like an organized the big that hit the think. anyway, this is a kind of thing which is, and he's again, or don't the but at the scene today, their physical fun in white rock thing,

the law could remind them that actually the real enemy is laid out. no one else is really think it's very fee bro, very is certainly incredibly see out of the way until they i think it's worth looking at the polls as they stand now in the context of where we are. and we're of course, in the middle of a parliamentary term, parliamentary terms of the u. k. can last up to 5 years. we just over 2 years in this one it's, it's very ordinary at this stage and a political cycle for the governing party to be behind in the polls. if we think back to david cameron in 2013, he was 15 points behind the labor party in 2013, 2 years later he won the general election. we think back to margaret thatcher. she was double digits behind the labor party during the westland affair of 1986 a year later she was an enormous parliamentary majority, whilst it's true and absolutely undeniable. the conservative party is absolutely

tanking in the polls right now. it's not actually that out of line from where we'd expect to see a mid term parliament. indeed, if we look even it's tony blair's ratings in around 2001 during the oil crisis, crisis and foot and mouth. and all of that the conservative party was ahead and then tony blair, of course, went to win on another election. so really we need to look at this in the round and sort of context of the parliamentary term that we're seeing it. it will see many new m p 's says she don't have as much time looking over the history of politics. are those that are trying to make the 1st moves but can pin it on because it might not be that they are just, you know, ignorant of conservative party history and might be that you're going to close the right on there that you're thing. so you do, you have these new and take and he's that have much linna dorothy and conservative

party and faith. and they're thinking to themselves, how stable is this, the leg or coalition that that got together in 2019? are we out of that periods of volatility? which really began in 2016. you had 2017, theresa mayo losing her majority. he then had 2019 a concert party landslide, or an awful lot of them. he's in those no gun and middle, and the guy that same electorate which and on a die. and delivered me my lovely job. they could turn on me again. i was and yet you see this, so i to cheat. good. so i want to bring in, i'm just wondering, going forward if, if there wasn't election to morrow. whether these people dismayed for the conservative party that they gave their vote to for the 1st time in these red war seats were talking about areas of the country, largely the north of england, the traditionally voted labor. that switched allegiance to the conservative party,

whether these people would actually go ahead and switch their religions back. whether these polls simply show a reactionary response in the midst of a crisis. how trusting should we be of these numbers right now. so need, i'm just gonna push on a little bit. i know that you've been reporting on, on some of the scandals that have hit the tory party that had services over a number of years. but after boys, johnson was off the scene for a few days because a family member had cove. it. he came back and he had an interview that was on january the 18th. and in this interview, he was asked about having a party in downing street the eve of the duke of edinburgh, us funeral. and he looked extremely contrite. let's take a look. this is in course, this is 1st time we've seen you since reports emerged in the daily telegraph, not denied by don street about 2 busy parties howled in the garden in the buildings

of number 10 the night before prince phillips funeral. when the country was in national morning, was having to apologize to the queen about those parties. the night before she put her husband of over 70 years, she laid into rest. was that the moment of shame for you? i deeply and bitterly regret of that that happened, and i can only really and renew my apologies both to her, to her majesty and her to the country ah, for misjudgments of that, that were made and for which i take full responsibility of decent you neither being so many at scandals, sir ivan, bice johnson. the cabinets tore, am hayes. why is this one different? is it different? while judging by his facial expressions during that interview, even behind the mass, this was a man that seemed brow beaten,

almost defeated after days, weeks of continual cool from opposition and peace to come clean on exactly what the prime minister did know or didn't know what kind of culture, he presided over at downing street hit a period exhausted, and that's off to having a bill days away from cameras isolating with a family member. it does raise big questions about how longer, how much longer boys johnson can. cute can really last thing that only 24 hours later he was up in parliament is ticklish old self batting criticism away left right and centre. reframe in the argument back on his achievements on how the government to handle the pandemic. over the past 700 days. on the one that appears contrived, on the other hand, he appears as if he's got all to play for it. he's a man that says treated in many ways, politics like a game throughout his career. and this is what needs to come into play well to the last for the looks of it. i'm going to i think it's really important to note just

how quickly things have changed the last few days that we were having this conversation last night. i think that everyone here would agree that we were thinking the orange johnson was about to be brought down in a matter of our having this conversation to night. it seems that he face, at least until next week. and really with seeing such quick turns in the fortunes of what is going on, land indeed, in the u. many conservative empties upon. seeing that pul, interview with the prime minister on monday were really quite irritated by his performance and thought, to some extent it was a performance, you know, the half down as if it was rehearsed. do you think within the think, do you think that was a performance? i think he would definitely have gained these questions with his advisors. there's no way that he would have spent so many days inside number 10 before having his 1st cost interview and not have thought about that question. was that story of advice

is having a policy. it has to be said that the prime minister, 40 miles away in his country retreats at the time that these parties before prince philip, that you'd better bring funeral took place when i think it happened while he was prime minister. and that basically has been a big point of contention. i, i think you touched him on something really important his home, which is we've talked about the concert, the coffee and piece and i think it's really important for talk about the media as well because i don't been in many ways is a creature of the persist me, as he thought about as a journal, he was employed by the telegraph as a columnist on the water, the 1000000 pounds a year. he is somebody who has enjoyed very nicely to the media and in some ways these 2 and dish and to sped on each other. so don't look at the progress left

leaning liberal paper look at what's being fed in the mail in the time, and in killer the telegraph because it was kind of grow or felton's own former employer, which broke the story about the down the street on the on the eve of the funeral. now this is important because they have seen the prime minister's most reliable back among the news pay those who are there to be a dramatic shift inspired and indeed, so an aggressive and style story for the prime minister. he's going to be looking over his shoulder off to himself. well, how much i rely on my end. i must and i rely on my ministers. some of things may have their own and take my and also i think it might be a little bit on minority in my view of the british media head of the telephone. it wasn't him that the telegraphs, political correspondent,

totally diver is an excellent journalist, got a very good story and run it on the front page. i don't really think there's more to it that they, they found a good school and like any good journalist who ran that good school. i don't think that there is a can i do time last night just asking this because i did promise out is that they can be part of the conversation as well. to add to was wondering, why are they media leakers bringing this story after almost a year. quick thoughts? tongue quick thought at mitchell quick in a sentence. time you go fast. i think they fundamentally didn't have their hands on it. until now. we know that a number of people have left downing street people who used to work at downing street of left over the last 12 months. and potentially the source is a bit more loosely now from the months ago. and okay. okay. there were 100 people invited to that down the street party that more people than i'm going to invite my

3rd year this year. and secondly, one of the parties was held as a leaving drink for james black, who was director communications downing street. what was his next job was deck the editor of the time, one of the biggest newspapers in the country. i asked mike running this, made the point that i knew the media didn't though. yeah. is this frankly risible. i me. so what british, why mr. saying right now is, let's wait for the inquiry. can you remind us what this inquiry is and when will we find out about its findings? yeah, well, we're hoping that we'll find out the ins and outs of this inquiry within the coming days. although sue gray, who's the top civil servant task with, with doing the inquiry is clearly getting more more information dumped in a inbox which may be contributing to the length of time. and the inquiry is going on for. she's a woman who is nicknamed as the sleeve buster of white pool. she's been responsible

for the departure of the some quite senior m. p. 's in the past and she's puffed not in a judicial way, but in the fact finding way to, to explore and investigate wrong. doings in downing street other government departments and look into these policies with greater detail and see also increasingly for the public. what kind of role also may apply to all of this? i love discussion on youtube because it's what we're all thinking, but we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but funds that you know that you're there. if, if you to question, i'm going to put it to ash and then also to tom, i do think the country isn't lazy, love relationship with a conservative. so the question is really, who will they replace boris? don't some with that's assuming that he's on his way out actually stop. well that he lear contender, which is final minute the receipt do not. and foreign minister list cross. both of them has been raising their media profound ways. diverse listening very i

ministerial looking photo you know, having quite tommy relationship with each other in the media. make a but you never know with the that always dream for adult or at the prize. everybody come out on thing and politics. you will, the knife will never wear the brown. that's why i think your things that's not aging for these would be needed to intend to. they don't want to be to johnson. they don't want to be writing him. all right, so this is a of a potential potential challenger tom, who will follow on from prime minister boyce johnson. well, at the moment that does seem to be this sort of these 2 candidates who are potentially out in front of course receive that person who became chelsea of the exchequer, georgia finances of the united kingdom just 2 years ago has been rocketed. let's

start marketing rolled out what was called the furlough scheme, and the u. k. giving out cash to people say that they could freeze their jobs during the credit of iris pandemic. he was seen as a big spending chancellor during the crisis and has potentially snoozed over a lot of the problems that we need to parent and, and we've got pretty high employment and the economy is done all right over the last 2 years. so he's built up a bit of a base there, but he's annoyed a number of conservatives because he's raised taxes as a result of these 2 years. so potentially, he's someone who's more popular and might be the head choice. but maybe the heart choice might be live, trust someone who's much more. libertarian believes in a small government wants to get rid of a number of government departments wants to retaliate. hm. but you know, you know, giving us here you think, you think might be there out there in the field. and tom and me, thank you so much for helping us compact the politics with undertake about prime

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