262: David Frost: Are the Tories beyond saving?
The Brendan O'Neill Show
The Brendan O'Neill Show
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🗓️ 4 January 2024
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| 0:00.0 | It feels like where we are in politics at the moment in the Conservative Party as a lot of people wish we could |
| 0:14.4 | go back to the pre-2016 world and I think that is a total misreading of what people in the |
| 0:21.9 | country want and the general revolt against politics as as usual. |
| 0:26.9 | There's no future for the Conservative Party as a party purely of those who are kind of doing all right and if you revert to you know |
| 0:35.3 | waitros Southern England conservatism then it's on the way out. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill and my special |
| 0:46.8 | guest this week, Lord Frost. |
| 0:48.6 | David, welcome to the show. |
| 0:50.4 | Great to be back. |
| 0:51.4 | Thanks, Brendan. |
| 0:52.4 | Happy New Year to you too. It's wonderful to be able to kick off |
| 0:56.5 | 2024 by talking to you because this promises to be a big political year for the United Kingdom. |
| 1:04.5 | We have a general election in the offing. Some people are saying it will be in May. It looks like Tory |
| 1:08.2 | strategists are planning it maybe from November, but it's going to happen. And by all accounts, your party, the Conservative |
| 1:17.2 | Party faces electoral oblivion and it looks like labour will form the next government. |
| 1:23.2 | That's how things stand at the moment. |
| 1:24.9 | So it looks like it's going to be a year of change, |
| 1:27.6 | a year of disruption, a year of interesting things. |
| 1:30.6 | So I guess I want to start by asking you how you feel about 2024. Do you feel gloomy? |
| 1:37.0 | Do you think it's still possible for you guys to pull things back? Where do you think things are at politically in terms of the year ahead? |
| 1:44.0 | Well, it's hard not to feel a bit gloomy looking at what's going on in the world and looking |
| 1:49.7 | at conservative politics within the UK but I try not to I think it's important to |
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