Badenoch v Jenrick: Can either candidate get the Tories back to power?
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🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Tory leadership ballots have now gone out - and Conservative members must now chose if they want Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick to lead their party. Unusually, both candidates come from the same wing of the party - the right - which begs the question, is there a genuine path for them to win over a wider electorate? We speak to the man spearheading the movement to find the Tories their route back to power, Grant Shapps.
Later, why are we horrified to discover our Prime Minister spent ten minutes speaking to one of the most influential women in the world?
And why is the Daily Mail calling this a DARK DAY FOR ENGLAND?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | The ballots are now opened in the race to be the Tory leader. |
| 0:16.3 | Kemi Badock, Robert Jenrick, are both urging Tory members to get out and vote. |
| 0:22.1 | But here we have two candidates from the right of the Conservative Party. |
| 0:27.3 | When electoral history in this country shows that elections are won around the centre, |
| 0:34.4 | so can Kemmy Badenog or Robert Jenrick lead the Tories back to power? |
| 0:40.3 | Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And Kemi Badernock is saying, |
| 0:50.4 | it's time to tell the truth. She has put out a video over the past week, which sets her out as a woman of substance |
| 0:57.8 | and a woman who is not scared to, I guess, sort of grab the country by the balls of it, |
| 1:05.1 | right? metaphorically. |
| 1:07.1 | Why don't you say grab the bull by the horns rather than the balls? |
| 1:10.1 | Yes, okay. |
| 1:11.8 | We could try that. |
| 1:15.9 | And Robert Jenrick is asking her to debate. |
| 1:18.5 | You know, he wants to have a debate on the BBC, |
| 1:20.5 | wants to have a debate on the sun thing. |
| 1:21.5 | He wants to have a debate everywhere, |
| 1:26.2 | which suggests that he feels possibly that he is behind at this point. |
| 1:29.2 | And I guess this is a race that most people in the country will not notice and will not care about because they will not be involved. They are not |
| 1:35.5 | the electorate. And of course what this election is about is no longer about the MPs at Westminster. |
| 1:40.7 | Yeah. They've had their say and we saw the daymarsh of that last week when James |
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