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Planet Normal

Battle for the soul of the Conservative Party

Planet Normal

Louisa Wells

News, News Commentary, Current Affairs, Telegraph, Society & Culture, Planet Normal, News And Current Affairs

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The rising cost of living continues to bite as we board the rocket of right thinking this week, but UK-EU relations have also returned to centre stage.


Baroness Claire Fox steps into the spaceboots again as guest co-pilot, to help Liam dissect all of the week's judicial jousting and performative politics. 


Claire believes the EU is determined to pick a fight over the Northern Ireland Protocol bill, describing it as the 'third big Brexit battle.'

 

Liam thinks it is 'completely out of order' the way the EU is 'messing with Northern Ireland,' and argues they just want to give the UK 'a kicking' over Brexit. 


The Government's economic policy was also on the agenda this week, with co-pilot Halligan suggesting the Prime Minister and his party are having an identity crisis over whether to cut taxes to stimulate the economy, or to continue borrowing and spending.


Also climbing aboard the rocket of right thinking this week is Helen Thomas, Former adviser to Chancellor George Osborne and CEO of BlondeMoney. She believes that there is a battle on for the soul of the Conservative Party, but urges traditional Tories to embrace a bigger state in this time of crisis if they want to win over a new generation.


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Read more from Claire: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/c/ck-co/claire-fox/ |

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0:00.0

The Telugu...

0:02.0

The Telugu...

0:03.0

...podcasts.

0:09.0

Five.

0:10.0

Is Boris Johnson a low-tax small-state Tory

0:15.0

or is Boris Johnson a high-tax,

0:17.0

Gordon Brown star politician?

0:20.0

Four.

0:21.0

There is a battle on for the soul of the Conservative Party.

0:25.0

Four sure.

0:26.0

Three.

0:27.0

It's becoming possible to say that you've done Brexit.

0:31.0

If you've abandoned the six counties of Northern Ireland,

0:34.0

which is part of the United Kingdom...

0:36.0

...it's completely out of order that the EU is messing with Northern Ireland.

0:42.0

They're messing with the Good Friday agreement.

0:44.0

One.

0:48.0

We have left off.

0:51.0

And welcome once again to Planet Normal,

0:53.0

the Telegraph podcast with Mealium Halligan,

0:55.0

an ordinarily Alison Pearson.

0:57.0

But my co-pilot's on a week off,

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