read this prime minister boris joseph is admitted that he did attend a dining street policy in the back garden opiate the heights of the 1st national, colbert lockdown in 2020. he apologized to britain's earlier on here at the time. of course not even allowed to go into one another's homes, let alone visit the elderly, dying sick, loved ones, while arguing. he thought you say there for 20 minutes, it was a work event. i appreciate the, the point that he's making about the event that i attended. i want to, i want to repeat that. i think it was a, a work event. if politicians form perhaps both sides of the aisle or concern they'd like to see, not just an apology from bars, johnson but resignation as well. because this seems to be a common theme. now of course, because our minds back to roughly the spring of 2022 years ago now we had the whole country. in fact, most of the world locked down almost completely and we've seen in the u. k. again and again. revelations of politicians, particularly conservative politicians, those close downing street having christmas parties, for example, while

joseph robertson, he's a fellow at the bow group and all said the director of the orthodox conservative. think tank and you very welcome joe sir. thanks for coming on. do you think boris johnson, one back, some public support today? it was a very difficult afternoon for him. well, i think he came out swinging and you said to me using the restrictions maybe to cover from, from the main story which is that there's a lack confidence in him and his government at the moment. i think he did quite well to flex us down quite skillfully and unlikely for his own. and johnson did a little maybe stamp his leadership credentials. once again, we didn't really do much in the way out. france. that's the problem. david davis, i think calling him out at the end really summed up the fact that perhaps i was chamber of all day that we saw today. do you think in all likelihood we will see a leadership challenge? yeah, i think from what i'm hearing this is already more than enough, but it's ready to go to launch into been to commission nips really a calculation of whether or not it's worth doing at this stage for the the rebels. i think, i think what you do have is very, very strong possibi