Anti-Tory Tactics
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Is tactical voting about to go mainstream? Matt speaks to the organiser of an US-style primary who wants to give voters the chance to choose one candidate to stand against the Conservatives in their area.
Plus: Columnists Manveen Rana and Matthew Parris discuss the details of the plot to oust Rishi Sunak led by his former adviser, whether it matters that rich people are getting stingier, and whether salty tea is as good as an American scientist will have you believe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Chorley and this is Politics Without the Boring Bits. |
| 0:08.4 | Coming up on today's episode, we're talking anti-tory tactics. |
| 0:13.0 | There's a move afoot in parts of the country to hold US-style primaries |
| 0:18.0 | where all of the anti-tory parties get together and try to agree who will have a clear run at trying to |
| 0:25.0 | oust a conservative MP. Is it a good idea? Is it anti-democratic? Will it work? We |
| 0:30.3 | take a look at our big thing on today's episode of the podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | Before that, Ritchie soon acts of troubles continue. |
| 0:37.0 | Should he be worried about losing his own polster? |
| 0:39.0 | Matthew Paris and Mamrine Rana take a look at that. |
| 0:42.0 | And don't forget, if you like where you hear on the |
| 0:43.7 | podcast you can join me live for Politics Without the Boring Bits on Times Radio. |
| 0:47.8 | Just listen for free on your D. A. B radio on your smart speaker or download the Times |
| 0:51.9 | Radio app. That's politics, without |
| 0:53.7 | the boring bits, weekdays from 10. Now I'm not saying there's not much |
| 1:00.9 | news around but this was the BBC's 10 o'clock news last night. Our political editor Chris Mason who joins me now. |
| 1:17.0 | If you wonder what's happened to my tie, I've lost it somewhere this evening. |
| 1:21.0 | It's disappeared. |
| 1:22.0 | So on the hunt for that. |
| 1:22.8 | Hope you find your time. Thank you Chris. |
| 1:26.8 | Extraordinary scenes. More on that when we get it. |
| 1:30.8 | And in fact the reason that Chris was on the news last night with his |
| 1:36.3 | tie is he had been interviewing Simon Clark, sorry Sir Simon Clark if you |
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