and the shadow paymaster general, jonathan ashworth and the deputy political editor vikki at younger. what does it mean? it s a big step, an act of parliament saying that hundreds of people will have their convictions overturned. it is pretty unprecedented and i don t think anyone can really remember a moment when it has happened and there is definitely concerning government about doing this because it s such a significant step. i think the view is that this is a very exceptional circumstance and has been going on a very long time and that is why this action is justified. very long time and that is why this action isjustified. i think it is worth saying there are dozens, hundreds of mps who have been campaigning on this for a long time. it s not true westminster did not know about this, and there was a public inquiry but it s all been too slow and it has left so many people with their lives ruined and it does just go to show that when the eyes of the country are focused on an issue how
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weeks that all this has happened in. but it has been the most dramatic fall from grace in british political history. fall from grace in british political histo . ., , ., ., , ., history. the final preparations have been made- history. the final preparations have been made. we history. the final preparations have been made. we can history. the final preparations have been made. we can see history. the final preparations have been made. we can see the - history. the final preparations have l been made. we can see the prepared remarks have been put on the podium on the left and ready for liz truss to appear. the team is outside number 11 downing st. there will be hundreds of mps watching. thousands of conservative members watching. millions of voters watching. the change today is notjust about the kind of political battle internally for the tory party. decisions will be made in the next few days and weeks, which will affect the livelihoods of millions of people around the country
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is not as severe as delta and yesterday the number, thank goodness, of deaths was coming down, the number of hospitalisations was coming. i just don t think at the moment there is anyjustification for further measures. of course people must be sensible, they only need to meet where it is reasonable to do so and they must consider getting the vaccination. but i think we are asking the good sense of the british people to do that rather than further government edicts at the moment. i want to ask you a bit more generally if you don t mind, in the wake of the north shropshire by election loss, the owen paterson affair, hundreds of mps including yourself rebelling, what are you making of all of this? is borisjohnson still up to thejob? we have clearly had a bad month, nobody would deny that and that the north shropshire result was anything but disastrous but we have been in these sort of situation before. i think what we are looking for now is borisjohnson