A(nother) Leadership Race

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Who could be the new PM, and how will they be chosen? Adam, Chris and Alex are back in the studio to look at how the leadership race will work, who might put themselves forward, and who might be in with a shout. This episode of Newscast is presented by Adam Fleming, the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason, and political correspondent Alex Forsyth. It was made by Chris Flynn and Danny Wittenberg. The assistant editors were Sam Bonham and Alison Gee.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Hello again, I was absolutely starving in the middle of all this breaking news.
0:08.7	So I popped out to a well-known high street bakery chain to get a Mexican chicken sandwich.
0:14.1	Then I walked back to the office and I just happened to be going past Parliament
0:18.2	and look who's here. Grey and Brady chair of the Backbench 1922 Committee explaining
0:22.8	what the rules are going to be for picking the new Prime Minister.
0:25.2	Thank you very much. Good afternoon again. Just to confirm, I've met with the board of the Conservative Party
0:33.8	and the executive of the United States of America. We agreed the process as I indicated earlier.
0:39.2	It will conclude by Friday the 28th of October. The process for the parliamentary stages of the
0:47.7	contest will begin now. Nominations are now open. We'll close at two o'clock on Monday.
0:56.4	Candidates will be expected to have at least 100 colleagues nominating them.
1:04.4	Nominations can be accepted either by signature or by email. We will then go on to conduct
1:13.3	whatever ballots are necessary during the course of Monday. When we reach two final candidates,
1:23.1	we will also conduct an indicative ballot so that it is clear what the balance of preference
1:30.7	within the parliamentary party is. Are they going to have that?
1:35.2	Well, that was one of the more momentous and Mexican chicken sandwiches I've had.
1:39.7	We'll catch up with what all of this means on this extra bonus episode of newscast.
1:43.9	Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. We will deliver. We will deliver. We will deliver.
1:49.3	Be on the back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah, blah, blah.
1:53.7	I've absolutely apologised for using the word scorn.
1:56.8	Calm down. Enough is enough.
1:58.9	See, I'm actually very right-wing. Has to love Easter.
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