A year of Rishi Sunak – but what about the next 12 months?
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Sophy Ridge from Sky News’ Politics Hub programme takes over from Niall Paterson for this episode.
She discusses Sunak’s record with Katy Balls, political editor at the Spectator, and Rachel Cunliffe, associate political editor at the New Statesman.
Then, Andrew Lansley, who ran Tory national election campaigns including in 1992, joins Sophy to discuss what the PM might be able to learn from the 1992 election campaign – and whether Jeremy Hunt is or isn’t part of the plan.
Senior podcast producer: Annie Joyce
Podcast producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi
Promotion producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
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| 0:56.7 | Legacy to find out how. Hello, this is Safie Ridge. I'm standing in for Neil Patterson today |
| 1:05.7 | on the Sky News Daily pod. So it's a bit of a politics hub takeover. That's a show that I present. So |
| 1:11.9 | just to warn you, it's going to be all about politics today. So I'm very excited by that. And |
| 1:16.5 | the reason we're doing politics today is because it's a year since Rishi Sienak became Prime Minister. |
| 1:22.0 | It is the greatest privilege of my life to be able to serve the party I love and give back to the country I owe so much to |
| 1:31.4 | and unity and I will make it my utmost priority to bring our party and our country together. |
| 1:40.4 | He has been PM for a whole year, which has no mean feat, I have to say, compared to Liz Truss, |
| 1:47.1 | who was the shortest ever serving Prime Minister before him. So a year of Rishi Suna, |
| 1:52.7 | and I guess the questions that I have is can he still trade off being the competent candidate |
| 1:57.2 | and calming the markets, or do we need to see more from him? Does he need to demonstrate |
| 2:01.9 | that he's a change candidate? Particularly, of course, given the states of the polls, which are |
| 2:07.0 | only really moving in the wrong direction for the current Prime Minister. We'll be discussing |
| 2:11.3 | that with Andrew Lansley, the man who ran the election campaign for the Conservatives in 1992, |
| 2:17.3 | where everyone thought they were going to lose, but they ended up winning. |
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