Can Penny Mordaunt hack the top job?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
On the episode, Cindy Yu talks to Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth about the latest round of the leadership ballot, where Suella Braverman has been culled, and look ahead to the weekend consisting of two TV debates, which present a make-or-break opportunity for relatively unknown candidates like Penny Mordaunt and Tom Tugendhat.
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| 0:16.8 | Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Cindy Yu earned by James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman. |
| 0:24.4 | So the second round of the Tory leadership campaign has now had its results coming out, |
| 0:28.9 | and James, we've lost Suela Braverman who didn't quite make the 30 mark. |
| 0:32.5 | Tell us about the results. |
| 0:33.7 | So Suela Braverman is out, and the big question now is, where do you hear 27 votes go? |
| 0:39.8 | And I think that Liz Truss and Cami Badenock will be the two campaigns that are |
| 0:44.4 | most optimistic about picking up a large chunk of votes. |
| 0:48.3 | Liz Truss needs those votes because she has currently 19 votes behind Penny Morden. |
| 0:52.9 | Truss is in third, Morden in second, Soonach is top of the poll still. |
| 0:57.6 | And so if you look at who else is to go out with Tuggenhardt and Badenock, the |
| 1:02.4 | most likely final three at the moment is Truss at Morden, Soonach. |
| 1:07.4 | Liz Truss needs to get a good chunk of the Braverman votes, the overwhelming majority, I would say, |
| 1:12.3 | because she will be in a fierce competition for Tuggenhardt and Badenock votes with the other |
| 1:18.4 | candidates. And Isabel, Tom Tuggenhardt, I thought actually didn't do as well as I thought he |
| 1:23.2 | might have done. I mean, he's scrooked by with just a few votes on 32 votes. Tell us about that. |
| 1:27.5 | Yes, and he's actually lost five votes between the two ballots between the first one yesterday |
| 1:34.9 | and today's voting rounds. And he was insisting this morning when he had one of his press conferences |
| 1:41.3 | that he was still very much in this contest. After this result, his campaign of |
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