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The Tory Nightmare: What Happens Now?

The Owen Jones Podcast

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Is Boris Johnson a Good Prime Minister?

I think we have to be pretty wary of those kind of hyper-fettical polling questions. People don't really know how they're going to vote until they actually see what happens. If Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister he's immediately going into that privileges committee inquiry, where there's going to be televised hearings every day talking about whether or not the PM is a liar. There's then a very good chance that he comes out the wrong way from that investigation and is then suspended to potentially a bilateral in which he could likely lose. At that point, I think the Conservative poll ratings could really go through, completely go through the floor.

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