from both sides of the floor. let s explore where the media fits into this story. we have stephen glover, a columnist at the daily mail, david yellen, former editor of the sun, who now runs the communications firm kitchen table partners. and ayesha hazarika, the broadcaster and journalist and a former adviser to some senior labour party politicians. stephen, i wonder if i could start with you. how do you assess the evolution of this story? well, i think it is a triumph for old fashioned journalism. i d also like to talk about beergate. that s the story involving keir starmerand his alleged antics in durham. on the one hand, we ve got the daily mirror, which basically as you say, broke the party gate story. and on the other hand we ve got the daily mail which pursued the beergate story for weeks without anybody really taking much notice. and it seems to me a good example of how the partisan press can work
Hostile to any mobilising of the working class that would bring Johnson and his entire government to account for the crime of overseeing almost 200,000 deaths from COVID, Starmer insisted for months that Johnson’s removal be organised by “decent, honourable” Tory MPs in a palace coup.
today, however, he has told newsnight,. the moment of highest danger seems to have passed for borisjohnson. kitty donaldson covers westminster for bloomberg. tory mps are angry, they might be angry still. but i think on balance, the prime minister has ridden this out. it has been going on for more than six months, and i think the prime minister refusing to go when he was at the most acute pressure, i think the decision was made then and he has ridden it out. of course, the water has been muddied somewhat by the fact that durham police are now looking into keir starmer as well over the so called beergate allegations. in the conservative party, there doesn t seem to be the sort of ground swell of rebellion. there are pockets of people, you see them talking in corners, wondering if the prime minister is the right man for thejob. but
Dublin has warned the UK not to break international law over the Northern Ireland Protocol as Liz Truss prepares to unveil legislation to allow the Government to unilaterally tear up post-Brexit border rules.