Are the 'New Conservatives' a help or a headache for Rishi Sunak?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
If you landed in this country and wondered what its problems were you might see the long queues for the health services, the high inflation, the shortage of workers to fill public sector jobs and the difficulties the country has with its supply chains.
The New Conservatives are a new fringe Conservative group trying to solve a different problem.
They think we need to cut immigration numbers by 400k, stop foreign workers visas, and offer the jobs (that we can't currently fill) to British workers. So that's now on Rishi's plate for him to ponder.
We talk to their leader Tom Hunt and ask him how he'd get Brits to do those jobs.
And after the press regulator IPSO ruled the Jeremy Clarkson column in the Sun was 'sexist, pejorative and prejudicial' we talk to IPSO's chairman Lord Faulks.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | You know when you go to the supermarket and you get in more catch up |
| 0:16.0 | and you see that Heinz has 57 varieties? Well, it seems that within the Conservative Party, |
| 0:26.1 | they too are trying to create just as many varieties of Conservative, almost more groupings now |
| 0:33.6 | than there are Conservative MPs. And they are very spicy. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm sure we've left out plenty. |
| 0:40.8 | But we were counting them up. |
| 0:43.5 | And we have got the National Conservatives, Nat Cons. |
| 0:46.9 | We've got the Common Sense Group, love common sense. |
| 0:50.8 | We've got the Conservative Democrats group. |
| 0:53.7 | We've got the Net Zero group. |
| 0:58.1 | We've got the... Oh, brand new one today, the new conservatives. You've missed out the ERG. So how could we have forgotten them? But you're right. We've |
| 1:04.2 | now got a new one, the new conservative group. So just like we had new labor in the 1990s, we've |
| 1:10.4 | now got new Conservatives. |
| 1:12.1 | Yes. And they have unveiled a 12-point plan in brackets of which more in a moment. And it's about |
| 1:20.7 | cutting immigration by hundreds of thousands. And they think that they are being helpful to Rishi |
| 1:27.4 | Sunak, who didn't think of this? |
| 1:29.7 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:34.4 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:36.4 | It's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:38.2 | And later in the podcast, we're going to be looking at the ruling that has come from the |
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