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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

Are the Conservatives doomed?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.7908 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Conservative Party conference gathers with the party way behind in third place and being hit by defections to Reform, a threat from the right they have never faced before. Can they survive?  Written and presented by Steve Richards. Subscribe to Patreon for bonus podcasts including the latest on Labour's Deputy leadership contest, and to get the regular podcast a day early and ad free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:53.5

Music Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

1:07.9

Thank you very much for tuning in wherever you are in Britain and around

1:12.8

the entire globe. We've got, as ever, a lot to reflect on. If it's okay with you, I'm going to

1:20.6

focus largely on what remains the most astonishing part of this political world that we're in at the moment, which is the

1:32.0

collapse of the Conservative Party. The week of the Conservative Party conference is underway,

1:39.2

and it was striking in Liverpool last week, political journalists say,

1:44.9

I'm not going to the Conservative Conference.

1:47.4

You know, it's just not worth it.

1:50.1

Whereas the Labour Conference, for all the issues whirling around it, was crammed.

1:56.7

Anyway, a bit on that, and then we go over to your questions.

2:01.8

Some context for the Tory conference.

2:06.1

In our adult lifetimes and members of the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative are of various ages,

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