with me is giles kenningham, founder of trafalgar strategy and former conservative party press chief. also i m joined by tim montgomerie, founder and former editor of the conservativehome blog. welcome, both of you. thank you for joining us. i want to know how each of you would describe a boris johnson s position this morning, starting with you, tim. genuinely gobsmacked. starting with you, tim. genuinely gobsmacked, flabbergasted i starting with you, tim. genuinely gobsmacked, flabbergasted by i starting with you, tim. genuinely. gobsmacked, flabbergasted by the scale of the rebellion last night. i think it sends out two big messages to the prime minister, one being if given a free vote, parliamentary party very sceptical about further lockdown measures, but also that the prime minister s word, he gathered the mile at a special meeting yesterday to yesterday to try to persuade them to back him and the fact that nearly 100 did and shows his authority now in the
street were already present in their offices, working as part of the kocovid response, and ma have just taken part from their desks. they have acknowledged that boris johnson did participate in this christmas quiz party briefly. they said this was to give thanks to the staff members for their work over the last year. but of course, as with that video that surfaced of the former spokesperson for the prime minister, suggesting that that party was held, and that of course, news from cnn affiliate itv that the prime minister s press chief himself was present at this party, handing out mock awards and certificates to up to 50 people, there is a real sense of anger and frustration, of course, many people were unable to meet with their loved ones over the christmas period last year due to those covid restrictions. social gatherings were strictly prohibited and the government was pretty stringent in enforcing those rules and calling for christmas parties and gatherings and such to not be held
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are aubrey allegretti political correspondent at the guardian and giles kenningham political commentator and former conservative party press chief. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the daily mail leads on the story on most of the front pages and the new data on the omicron variant. it shows two vaccine doses are not enough to stop people from catching the new strain but a third boosterjab will give at least 70% protection. the is front page has the same research which says the immunity given by the astra zeneca vaccine wanes to near zero after six months . the sun reports that omicron cases could reach up to1 million in 2022. the times says ministers are considering further restrictions to combat the new variant,
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are aubrey allegretti political correspondent at the guardian and giles kenningham political commentator and former conservative party press chief. tomorrow s front pages.starting with. the daily mail leads on our main story tonight the new data about the strength of the omicron variant. health experts have said two vaccine doses are not enough to stop people from catching the new strain but a third boosterjab will give at least 70% protection against it. the is front page says the immunity given by the astra zeneca vaccine against the variant wanes to near zero after six months .
hello and welcome back to our look ahead at what the papers will be bringing us over the next few hours. with me again, jenny, journalist and times radio present terror, and giles, political commentator, from a conservative party press chief, welcome back to you both. we ve got several more titles, let s start with the dominant story across most of the front pages, the key is outside many petrol stations, as i say, the daily mirror leads with calls for essential workers with nurses, doctors and carriers to begin priority. the same story in the times here with a warning from