Are the Conservatives laying a trap for Labour?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this week former minister Simon Clarke wrote in the Telegraph, the Conservative party faces an electoral "massacre" under Rishi Sunak's leadership and warned “extinction is a very real possibility for our party”. “He does not get what Britain needs. And he is not listening to what the British people want.” and “Instead of conviction, we have convention.”
A listener writes in to ask: with all the disarray and rebellion in the Tory party, what's the likelihood of a confidence vote anytime soon?
Anoosh and Freddie also review whether the are Conservatives 'salting the earth' or 'laying traps for Labour' .
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| 1:02.0 | This is an episode we like to call You Ask Us. |
| 1:16.4 | Hello, I'm Anu Shkelly and Britain editor at the New Statesman and host of this podcast. And joining me in the studio I have Freddie Hayward at political correspondent. |
| 1:21.6 | Now we've been digging around yet again in our virtual mailbag and have brought a few questions from you to discuss so I'm going to go first. This is a question we actually got from a YouTube listener who goes by Wooten PQ 9 F and they ask with all the disarray and rebellion in the Tory party |
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