A year of Rishi - can he keep the Tories in power?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak’s premiership is almost one year old. Is this where the Tory party wants to be 12 months out from an election?
Can a party that’s been in power for 13 years win again? And what has to happen to make that possible?
We talk to Ben Riley-Smith author of The Right to Rule and political editor of The Telegraph.
Editor: Tom Hughes
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | It's an honour to be elected as leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party. |
| 0:18.8 | I am resigning as leader of the Conservative Party. |
| 0:23.4 | I am humbled and honoured to have the support of my parliamentary colleagues |
| 0:28.9 | and to be elected as leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party. |
| 0:34.4 | That was Rishi Sunak, coming up to a year as our prime minister. That is, if you like, |
| 0:40.3 | eight Liz Trusses. Or eight iceberg lettuces. But how do the Tory party go on? It's been |
| 0:48.5 | 13 years in power. And is there just a feeling that it's all coming to an unhappy end? Is there anything that |
| 0:57.5 | Sunak can do now to turn things around? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:05.8 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And it is a year since Rishi Sunak was anointed, conservative |
| 1:15.1 | party leader and therefore became another unelected prime minister in the sense of the British |
| 1:20.8 | people had no say in his appointment, making him the fifth Conservative prime Minister in the last 13 years. |
| 1:30.3 | The rivals for the leadership of the Conservative Party are of course David Davis and David Cameron. |
| 1:36.3 | I expect to go to the palace and offer my resignation. |
| 1:39.3 | A fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up. |
| 1:46.0 | In David Cameron, I follow in the footsteps of a great modern Prime Minister. |
| 1:52.0 | I will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold. |
| 1:57.0 | I do so with no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the |
| 2:04.6 | opportunity to serve the country I love. |
| 2:12.6 | Five men, one job, an hour of your questions from across the UK. |
| 2:19.0 | How they answer tonight will help decide who becomes our next Prime Minister. |
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