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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It is Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: the eighth of June. I hope you've had a fantastic

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Speaker 1: week so far and hump Day isn't scaring you too much.

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Speaker 1: Today on the podcast, we're going to be talking about confidence.

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Speaker 1: But this is not a self help podcast. It's about

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Speaker 1: the news. We'll get to all of that in a minute.

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Speaker 1: The first Sarah, tell me something interesting.

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Speaker 2: It was a big jay. Yesterday the Reserve Bank lifted

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Speaker 2: the cash rate for the second month in a row.

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Speaker 2: The increase fromero point three five percent to point eight

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Speaker 2: five percent is the biggest one month increase in over

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Speaker 2: twenty years and is expected to continue rising over the

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Speaker 2: coming months. That is, of course due to inflation. Treasurer

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Speaker 2: Jim Chalmers said the rise was difficult news for homeowners

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Speaker 2: already facing skyrocketing costs of living.

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Speaker 1: The world's biggest four day work week trial is now

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Speaker 1: underway in the United Kingdom, with over three three hundred

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Speaker 1: workers across seventy companies taking place in the six month trial.

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Speaker 1: A similar program we'll run here at Home Australia from August,

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Speaker 1: with preparation to begin this month. Employees will work eighty

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Speaker 1: percent of their usual week but receive no loss of pay.

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Speaker 2: Five members of the Proud Boys far right group have

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Speaker 2: been charged with seditious conspiracy for their roles in the

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Speaker 2: US Capital attack in January last year. Seditious conspiracy requires

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Speaker 2: proof that at least two people agree to overthrow a

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Speaker 2: government authority or delay the execution of US law by force,

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Speaker 2: and carries a twenty year maximum prison sentence.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news, the Queensland government has announced that

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Speaker 1: free period products will be made available to all state schools.

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Speaker 1: In a statement, Queensland Premier and the Stasia Paliche said

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Speaker 1: that providing access to free period products can make a

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Speaker 1: real difference to students whose families are struggling, have unstable

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Speaker 1: accommodation or a fleeing domestic or family violence.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so Sam, you hinted at the top that we

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Speaker 2: were talking about confidence. Why are we talking about confidence

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Speaker 2: and what has happened?

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Speaker 1: Look, Zara, I'm pretty sure that of the podcasts about confidence,

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Speaker 1: not many are going to be about the United Kingdom,

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Speaker 1: let alone their leader Boris Johnson. But this one is.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday in the United Kingdom it was announced that Boris Johnson,

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Speaker 1: who's the Prime Minister of the UK and leader of

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Speaker 1: the Conservative Party would be facing a confidence vote that

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Speaker 1: placed his leadership in imminent threat. Johnson has been the

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Speaker 1: leader of the Conservative Party often called the Tories, and

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Speaker 1: that's what will refer to them as through this podcast,

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Speaker 1: and Prime Minister since Theresa May's resignation in twenty nineteen. Now,

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Speaker 1: a confidence vote is when all members of Parliament in

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Speaker 1: a certain party, so in this case, the Tories vote

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Speaker 1: to express their confidence in their leader. The vote is

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Speaker 1: decided by a simple majority, so think about it as

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Speaker 1: fifty percent plus one. In the Tories, fifteen percent of

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Speaker 1: the party's MPs need to submit a formal letter saying

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Speaker 1: that they have lost confidence in their leader. This quota

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Speaker 1: was reached on Monday and it triggered a confidence vote

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Speaker 1: on Johnson's leadership. Graham Brady, who's the chairman of a

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Speaker 1: committee representing Tory members of Parliament, announced the result on Monday.

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Speaker 3: I can report as returning Officer that three hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty nine ballots were cast no spoil ballots, that the

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Speaker 3: vote in favor of having confidence in Boris Johnson's leader

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Speaker 3: was two hundred and eleven votes and the vote against

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Speaker 3: was one hundred and forty eight votes, and therefore I

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Speaker 3: can announce that the Parliamentary Party does have confidence.

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Speaker 1: As Brady said that the Tories voted in favor of

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Speaker 1: keeping Johnson at the helm, with two hundred and eleven

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Speaker 1: members voting to keep Johnson and one hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: eight expressing no confidence in their leader. So all in all,

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Speaker 1: that's about sixty percent who support him and about forty

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Speaker 1: percent who died.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and how did Boris Johnson react to the confidence vote?

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Speaker 1: It's been a week here where former Nationals leader Barnemy

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Speaker 1: Joyce said you might think I'm sad, but I'm not.

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Speaker 1: In short, Boris Johnson's reaction to the opposite verdict was

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Speaker 1: pretty happy and a lot of relief. Despite only winning

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Speaker 1: by a margin of sixty three votes, Johnson said the

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Speaker 1: result was convincing and decisive, adding that it was a

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Speaker 1: very good result for politics and for the country. Now,

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Speaker 1: according to Tory's leadership rules, Johnson is going to be

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Speaker 1: safe from another leadership challenge for at least twelve months now,

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Speaker 1: but questions will remain about his longevity in the position.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so can we just go back a few steps

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Speaker 2: because all of that makes sense, But let's zero in

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Speaker 2: on why this leadership challenge actually happened. What the origin

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Speaker 2: of the discontent among the Tories actually is.

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Speaker 1: There are a couple of reasons, but the major reason

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Speaker 1: by far is towards lockdown parties. This refers to several

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Speaker 1: reports of parties at Johnson's residence during the lockdowns of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, which broke the restrictions

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Speaker 1: that were in place to curb the spread of COVID

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Speaker 1: in the United Kingdom. Now, the scandal, which has been

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Speaker 1: dubbed party saw Johnson become the first sitting UK Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister to be fined for breaking the law. After being

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Speaker 1: fined by the London Metropolitan Police, Johnson said that at

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Speaker 1: the time it did not occur to him that the

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Speaker 1: parties might have been a breach of the rules. Since then,

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Speaker 1: Johnson has been facing calls for his resignation since an

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Speaker 1: independent report into the lockdown parties at his residence was

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Speaker 1: published last month. Now, this report concluded that the parties

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Speaker 1: showed failure of leadership and judgment and that senior leadership

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Speaker 1: must bear responsibility.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but despite all of that, Boris Johnson did survive

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Speaker 2: the confidence vote He's still the Prime Minister, he's still

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Speaker 2: the leader of his party. So what happens now to

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Speaker 2: Boris Johnson?

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Speaker 1: I guess he just lives to fight another day as

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister and as leader of the Tories. But and

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Speaker 1: it's a big butt. His small margin of survival doesn't

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Speaker 1: exactly show high belief in the party ranks for their leader. Instead,

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Speaker 1: it shows that Johnson's days at the Helm could be numbered.

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Speaker 1: This narrow result could threaten to prolong the Tory leadership issue,

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Speaker 1: rather than the party to just move on as Johnson wishes.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you an example, so Tory parliament member Julian

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Speaker 1: Sturdy said. The results of the confidence vote were, in

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Speaker 1: his words, clear evidence that Johnson no longer enjoys the

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Speaker 1: full hearted confidence of the Parliamentary Party and should consider

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Speaker 1: his position. His next major challenge is going to be

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Speaker 1: on the twenty third of June when the Tory held

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Speaker 1: seats of Tiverton and Honiton and Wakefield will go to

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Speaker 1: a by election, and that can often give us a

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Speaker 1: good sense of how the rest of the country is

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Speaker 1: feeling about their government. If the Tories lose these seats,

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Speaker 1: it will definitely amplify pressure on Johnson and his leadership.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and just to round out this conversation, it's not

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Speaker 2: the first time this has happened. What has happened to

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Speaker 2: previous prime ministers who have faced confidence votes?

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Speaker 1: It's kind of spelled the end for their time as

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Speaker 1: prime minister. We can point to a really recent example.

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Speaker 1: It's actually Johnson's predecessor, Theresa May. She faced her own

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Speaker 1: confidence vote in twenty eighteen following a breakdown the delivery

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Speaker 1: of the Brexit deal. Now she survived this vote, she

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Speaker 1: survived two hundred to one hundred and seventeen, and that

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Speaker 1: might sound familiar, but pressure for her to resign continued

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Speaker 1: and she resigned just six months later. And it was

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Speaker 1: this resignation, ironically, that paves the way for Johnson to

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Speaker 1: come into power.

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Speaker 2: Well, all eyes will be on Boris Johnson. As you said,

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Speaker 2: these by elections are upcoming and certainly the UK faces

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Speaker 2: a number of challenges, so seeing what happens. But he is,

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Speaker 2: as you said, safe for another year from a confidence vote. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 2: a year is a long time in politics, so it'll

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Speaker 2: be very interesting to see what happens. But that is

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Speaker 2: all we have time for today. On the Dally Os podcast.

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