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Boris Johnson hopes reshuffle will steady the ship: Politics Weekly podcast

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'Thrs, Going to Be This New Office of the Prime Minister'

Borris's key audience at the moment is m ps. And to m p, this sends a signal out that he hasn't got a grip. The ship is sinking. If your own staff don't have confidence in you, then why should we haveconfidence in you? So incredibly problematic. We aren quite unclear about what it will actually look like. It might be that he takes a lot of the kind of powers from the cabinet office into this beefed up number ten arrangement. But also, how does this number ten direct government? Will it have more power to direct government?

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