Boris' By-election Blues

Chopper's Politics

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The biggest rail strike in a generation might mean the trains aren't moving, but politics certainly is.

The Telegraph's own Gordon Rayner joins Christopher Hope to chew the fat after the Conservatives faced bruising losses in both Tiverton and Honiton, and Wakefield, and wonders whether there was a coded message in Oliver Dowden's resignation letter, after the Party Chairman fell on his sword in the early hours of Friday morning.

Also on the podcast, former advisor to Boris Johnson and partner at Portland Communications Gabriel Milland shares his 'purple patches' theory about why Red Wall vs Blue Wall oversimplifies the Tory vote, and why he believes the heart of the Tory party is shifting from Surrey to Stafford.

Plus 6 years on from the Brexit vote, Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan joins Chris to discuss making the most of Brexit, the lingering Northern Ireland conundrums, and, crucially, where the best lamb comes from in the UK.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Chopper's politics.
0:05.0	There will be an awful lot of those 148 MPs and particularly the real sort of hardliners
0:11.0	who will be wishing today that they'd waited until after this result to have that vote because I think for sure those numbers would have gone up.
0:21.0	Hello and welcome to Chopper's Politics. I'm Christopher Hope, Associate Editor for Politics at the
0:26.7	Telegraph and this week, rather than propping up my usual bar store at the Red Lion
0:31.5	pub, yep I'm back at my kitchen table, working from home.
0:37.0	And this time it's not COVID keeping me trapped in my house,
0:40.0	but the biggest rail strike in a generation but although the trains
0:44.4	aren't moving well politics certainly is the Troyes have suffered their worst
0:49.9	by-election defeat in history as they lost a huge majority in Tibetan and
0:55.2	Hollerton in Devon and surrendered Wakefield to Labour and in the early hours of
1:01.6	Friday morning as those results rolled in,
1:05.0	the party chairman Oliver Dowden suddenly quit falling on his sword
1:10.0	to the shock of most in Westminster. So where does this leave the government and
1:16.8	particularly Boris Johnson? Joining me to the fact is Gordon Rayna, our associate editor. Gordon, welcome to chopper's politics.
1:27.0	Thank you, Chris.
1:28.0	What the hell happened last night?
1:31.0	Well, a couple of fairly expected things happened in that the Tories lost to by
1:37.6	elections they lost Wakefield to labour and they lost Tiverton and Honiton to the Lib Dems
1:45.2	though by probably a bigger margin as anybody had predicted.
1:49.6	It was their biggest numerical defeat ever in a by-election. The less
1:56.2	and completely unexpected thing that happened was that Oliver Dowden,
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