David, Helen and Chris Brooke have one more go at making sense of the tangled web that is British politics. Can Johnson really survive, and even if he does, can his brand ever recover? Is this a scandal, is it a crisis, or is it something else entirely? Does history offer any guide to what comes next? Plus we explore what might be the really big lessons from the last two years of Covid-dominated politics.
Talking Points:
It’s obvious why Boris is a problem, but it’s not clear who would replace him.
Boris won’t go voluntarily. But can he survive?
In 2015, Ed Miliband was leading in the headline polls. But there were signs of weakness.
The politics of scandal are different from the politics of crisis.
This particular scandal is bound up in Johnson’s appeal.
Were the pandemic years a dress rehearsal for the politics of climate change?
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