Marr says Wednesday was not a bad day for Rishi Sunak after his former boss was dragged out at a committee hearing
"So this was a huge day for politics. We had the theatre of Boris Johnson defending himself against the charge of lying to parliament, plus, and I think this is more important - a vote on Rishi Sunak’s Northern Ireland deal in which his most fervent Tory opponents lined up against him," Andrew said at the start of Tonight with Andrew Marr.
"What, tonight, do you really need to know about all of this? In the end, just 22 Tories joined what isn't exactly a split or breakaway in the Tory party but a kind of grand disaffection with Rishi Sunak. "And I think today shows that the answer is yes. To be sure, his real working majority is much less than Boris Johnson's was when he won power in 2019.
"An obvious answer might once have been Boris Johnson but frankly, after his long, techy evidence in front of the Commons Privileges Committee this afternoon, I don't think that's going to happen. Johnson didn't enjoy himself and nor did the committee."Watching them try to corner him was like watching someone trying to pick up an agitated python with buttery fingers or pin down a hummingbird.
"To defend himself, Johnston used a variety of tactics. But he was at his most impressive when he made more human, explanatory arguments about why he thought that even if the rules had been bent in No10, they'd all been trying very hard and were only human. "Now, this was an evidence session and we can only really judge how it went, by the expressions and attitude of the MPs questioning the former prime minister, but they didn't seem impressed by his verbal dodging and diving.
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