electorate to carry on thinking, good old boris, he has been stitched up. but clearly some of the governing conservative party think that way but there is also an awful lot of people who take the view inside the conservative party and beyond that borisjohnson s downfall is entirely his own doing, both in terms of his personal behaviour and his policies. he has positioned himself for a comeback, there is no doubt about that. can he make one? well, the opinion polling for now suggests that he has become that most unfortunate thing in some ways, and that is an unpopular populace. ways, and that is an unpopular populace- ways, and that is an unpopular “oulace. ., , ., , populace. that is some way to put it. and looking populace. that is some way to put it. and looking at populace. that is some way to put it. and looking at going populace. that is some way to put it. and looking at going forward i it. and looking at going forward generally, what does this mean for rishi sunak? wha
who will think, good old boris, he has been hard done by the whole system which is out to get him. mirrored. there is a whole chunk of the electorate that voted for him, in 2019, voting for brexit, they feel that way, they might feel summed up as good old boris, he is trying to do his best. i think there is another chunk of people inside the conservative party and beyond he will think that this is just a new low for borisjohnson, that he has taken british politics down further than anyone thought that he might have done, that is truly trumpian and, for those kinds of people, they will be saying that this is exactly why they didn t think that boris johnson was fit for high office. definitely there will be tension within the governing conservative party. you will polarise, this action will polarise the country in the way that he has been terrorising it these last few years, you know,
think you re right on both counts. i already heard today on the bbc plenty of people from those groups out making the point that this is totally unacceptable. several of them very strong language. they are out there making the case. what matters to tory mps is whether or not borisjohnson remains a winner. there you are quite right. what happens in the elections in may will be fundamental to his future. this is of course be fundamental to his future. this is of course kind be fundamental to his future. this is of course kind of be fundamental to his future. this is of course kind of a be fundamental to his future. this is of course kind of a story of our times because it is a pandemic that everybody lived through. there are bills that were broken. that much we know today. how do you see it watching it from the states, the political drama playing out in london? it political drama playing out in london? , . . political drama playing out in london? , ., ., ., , london? it is a matte
can t expect him to behave the way previous prime ministers have behaved. what school of thought is going to prevail in the long term in british politics, the idea of the conservatives as corrosive or good old boris, a different kind of leader, i simply don t know. you thou~ht leader, i simply don t know. you thought the leader, i simply don t know. you thought the music leader, i simply don t know. you thought the music but you person has left before you did. thanks so much for staying on with us. thank you so much to all my guests. let s turn now to the conflict in ukraine. within the past couple of hours, the states top diplomat antony blinken has said there is credible information that russia may use chemical weapons in its attempt to take the strategically important city of mariupol. his comments came as president vladimir putin was seen in public for the first time since his military shifted its focus away from kyiv. vladimir putin spent part of tuesday strolling around a sp
to stick by these rules in order to save lives. to save the country and national health care system so it was immensely serious and people thought they were doing that. people were not able to visit dying loved ones and i don t think that anger will easily dissipate but to pick up and expand that and pick up on the point. i do think he has hit on the third at the real danger facing the conservatives is notjust from this but the sort of accumulated sense that they have been in power for a long time and there is something rather corrosive as critics would see it about boris johnson s rather corrosive as critics would see it about borisjohnson s conduct in public office. and of course, you can speak to some conservative mps were not command the tv and say it but they feel that, they sort of worry about lawbreaking. then you have to set against that there is another chunk of the population that i talked about earlier, sizeable minority, i suppose one might describe them is that at this poi