Another new PM, Rishi Sunak
The News Agents
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🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
At 1.57pm this afternoon, Penny Mordaunt's team were still insisting she would make it through to the final run off with Rushi Sunak to become Britain's next prime minister. But, just two minutes before the 2pm deadline, she pulled out of the race, crowning Rishi Sunak as the next Conservative party leader and the UK's first British Asian Prime Minister. It's quite a moment.
Today The News Agents take stock of what we know about him, what we don't, and what his leadership will mean for the rest of the country. We hear from Empireland author Sathnam Sanghera on what it means for him, and do a bit of counting ourselves- cynics will tell you that if you add up all the supporters Boris Johnson claimed to have, all the supporters Penny Mordaunt believed she had and all the supporters Rishi Sunak had you arrive at a greater number than there are Tory MPs. We leave that to your musings without comment...
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Production: Gabriel Radus
Executive Producers: Tom Hughes & Ellie Clifford
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Good afternoon. As returning officer in the leadership election, I can confirm that we have received one valid nomination. |
| 0:29.6 | And Rishi Sunak is therefore elected as leader of the Conservative Party. |
| 0:35.6 | That was not the returning officer from a general election. That was the head of a private members club, |
| 0:38.8 | Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee. And in a way that we're now getting used to, |
| 0:43.9 | we learn about our new prime ministers from him, from the choice that other conservative MPs |
| 0:51.9 | have been making. Today was no different and we now understand that Rishi |
| 0:57.0 | Sunak is the new leader of the Conservative Party shortly to become our new Conservative Prime Minister. |
| 1:05.0 | And just before 2 o'clock, when the result was due to be announced, on Twitter came a statement from Penny Mordant, |
| 1:12.8 | whether she had got the numbers and chose not to run. |
| 1:16.6 | I doubt. I don't think she got the numbers. |
| 1:18.6 | But she kind of said, I'm out. |
| 1:20.7 | We're saluting a new Prime Minister today. |
| 1:23.1 | Rishi Sunak, it is. |
| 1:25.1 | And so on one level, the Tory party avoids the drama of it going to the leadership |
| 1:30.3 | and perhaps the leadership overturning what the MPs wanted. On the other hand, I suspect there |
| 1:35.6 | are going to be an awful lot of Conservative Party members around the country who thought, |
| 1:39.4 | six, seven weeks ago, I was asked my opinion, and I said, I don't want Rishi Sunak, and now the |
| 1:43.5 | Prime Minister is Rishi Sunak. |
| 1:45.3 | The implication is they got it wrong. Sorry, you've got it wrong last time, we're not asking |
| 1:49.4 | you again. |
| 1:50.4 | And of course, they've been asked once, the British population, 160,000 of them been asked |
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