the downing street christmas parties and the way that those have been presented. whether they happened, whether they didn t, who went but the sense that the government was giving itself one set of rules and enforcing another set on the country. whatever the rights and wrongs of those particular incidents, that has landed with voters. and you have to ask yourself, if boris johnson hadn t chosen to contest the censuring on ethics grounds of owen paterson, one of his mps former mps whether all of this would ve unfolded. but it has unfolded, and he s really got enormous difficulty in managing his party, even managing his cabinet. that said, i do think the forces are not yet there to get rid of him. and the policy challenges for the year ahead for him? well, coronavirus.
question is will borisjohnson still be leading them? i think yes. it s very hard to get rid of a conservative prime minister. it has been done, as we remember, and it can be done quite brutally, but it takes a lot of doing. and i don t get the sense right yet that the forces are massing to get borisjohnson out. but the anger is massing right across the party mps, party members, voters are really furious. if there s one thing that s cut through, it s the downing street christmas parties and the way that those have been presented. whether they happened, whether they didn t and who went, but the sense that the government was giving itself one set of rules and enforcing another set on the country. whatever the rights and wrongs of those particular incidents, that has landed with voters.
a single party of government. i suppose the more interesting question is will borisjohnson still be leading them? i think yes. it s very hard to get rid of a conservative prime minister. it has been done, as we remember, and it can be done quite brutally, but it takes a lot of doing. and i don t get the sense right yet that the forces are massing to get borisjohnson out. but the anger is massing right across the party, mps, party members, voters are really furious. if there s one thing that s cut through, it s the downing street christmas parties and the way that those have been presented. whether they happened, whether they didn t and who went, but the sense that the government was giving itself one set of rules and enforcing another set on the country. whatever the rights and wrongs of those particular incidents, that has landed with voters.
it s not hard to predict that a year from now in all probability that british conservatives will still be in government. they ll be looking to their 13th year in power whether in coalition or as a single party of government. i suppose the more interesting question is will borisjohnson still be leading them? i think yes. it s very hard to get rid of a conservative prime minister. it has been done, as we remember, and it can be done quite brutally, but it takes a lot of doing. and i don t get the sense right yet that the forces are massing to get borisjohnson out. but the anger is massing right across the party, mps, party members, voters are really furious. if there s one thing that s cut through, it s the downing street christmas parties and the way that those have been presented. whether they happened,
to get borisjohnson out. but the anger is massing right across the party, party members, voters are really furious. if there s one thing that s cut through, it s the downing street christmas parties and the way that those have been presented. whether they happened, whether they didn t and who went, but the sense that the government was giving itself one set of rules and enforcing another set on the country. whatever the rights and wrongs of those particular incidents, that has landed with voters. and you have to ask yourself if borisjohnson had not chosen to contest the censuring on ethics grounds of owen paterson, one of his mps, former mps, whether all this would ve unfolded. but it has unfolded and he has really got enormous difficulty in managing his party, even managing his cabinet. that said, i do think the forces are not yet there to get rid of him.