Ben Wallace and Nadine Dorries, the long goodbye

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

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“History will not remember you kindly” Nadine Dorries’ wrote this weekend in her resignation letter to Rishi Sunak. But this is not the only departure which has been looming over the Conservatives for the past few weeks. This morning former defence secretary Ben Wallace handed in his resignation and was swiftly replaced by Grant Shapps, who stepped into his fifth job this year.

Rachel Cunliffe, Freddie Hayward, and Zoë Grünewald discuss the implications of the reshuffle for both Labour and the Tories, and whether history will, in fact, remember Rishi Sunak - and Nadine Dorries - kindly.

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0:34.0	Hello, I'm Rachel. I'm Freddie.
0:36.0	And I'm Zoe.
0:37.0	And this is the New Statesman's political podcast.
0:39.0	In this episode, we'll be discussing departures and arrivals,
0:42.0	the very recent resignation of Defence Secretary Ben Wallace,
0:45.0	and also Nadine Doris' domestic exit
0:48.0	as an MP for midbedfature after weeks of mounting pressure.
0:51.0	Why have they left? And who will replace them?
0:55.0	Hi, I'm Rachel Kahneliff,
1:02.0	Associate Political Editor of the New Statesman,
1:04.0	and joining me in the studio, I have Freddie Hayward,
1:06.0	and Zoe Greenwald.
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