that were voting no as of yesterday, he made a lot of give and take yesterday. as i said, very constructive discussions on rules and spending and budget reform and who would be on what committees and the question now is who has gone to yes and that is what we await for the report this morning. so you re saying that no one despite the concessions has committed to voting yes, to reversing their vote? no, i m not saying that at all. i m saying the discussions continue because you have a few people engaged in discussions anz you have a lot of people that have to be explained to, met with and have more detail with before they get to that final conclusion. okay. the issue here of course is given the slimness of the margin, mckacarthy needs not ju the right wing members to support him, he needs the moderates as well, including those like don bacon has
at, mika, you know, marjorie taylor greene for a couple of years has been this gab fly in the house minority, that you could more or less ignore even though she said deliberately outrageous things because she ultimately had no power, and the issue now is that she not only is in the majority, but because of the slimness of the majority, she has a tremendous amount of power. she can extract concessions from kevin mccarthy and others to pursue her agenda, and her agenda is objectively quite out there. the report that i was shocked by is that she wants house republicans to investigate the trials and jailing of january 6th riot attendees, which seems like a very peculiar priority for the new republican party, but if that s where they re going, that s where they re going. and so i do think that it s very valid at this point to actually
getting the numbers. what s interesting is the sort of talk going on that conservative mps, some were reluctant to go forward and publicly commit to backing him without being sure that he would follow through. they didn t themselves want to be landed in a situation where they would sign onto backing him and be left in lurch. anyway, some were perhaps holding back. but we also know that many, including people that would have been close to borisjohnson in the past had been removing their support over to rishi sunakfor the past had been removing their support over to rishi sunak for the sum to penny mordaunt but two days and quite big backerfrom marsjohnson s brexit days going to rishi sunak. this is a huge puncture, if you like into the whole drama of what this race might look like. with the boris johnson out of the way, i was speaking to a former tory mp, a common slimness with the time sue said he could see a way in which
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