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Coffee House Shots

Can Penny Mordaunt win it?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today all candidates need 30 nominations to make it through to the next round. One dark horse in the race is Penny Mordaunt who is seen as Labour's greatest threat. This morning she held her official campaign launch in at Westminster's Cinnamon Club - promising to 'fix a broken Whitehall'. 

But will she be able to see off her rivals in the Tory leadership race?

Katy Balls speaks to Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth.

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0:00.0

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0:16.8

Hello and welcome to Coffee Have Shots,

0:18.4

suspected as daily and sometimes more than daily politics podcast.

0:22.2

I'm Katie Bores and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Forsyff.

0:26.1

So today all candidates need 30 MP nominations to make it through.

0:31.3

Yes today you had to have 20 to even get on the ballot paper and a few candidates fell off.

0:38.7

Fraser probably the most striking was sad to jab it.

0:40.9

Why do you think he lacked the support?

0:42.6

In previous contest we talked about as a real chance of entering number 10.

0:48.3

Well there is a kind answer and unkind answer for that.

0:50.8

The kind answer is that he laid out his policy in some detail.

0:54.0

He wanted to present himself as the guy he just costed pledges and thinks these things through.

0:59.3

Now perhaps the party isn't in the mood for that sort of thing.

1:02.2

So it preferred what British net calls fairytales.

1:05.6

The unkind answer is that he's just too familiar.

1:08.3

This is his third time around and that when it comes to leadership contests,

1:12.5

you have a diminishing currency with how often you put yourself in front of the members.

1:16.6

That last time around he had this very alluring British dream story.

1:22.2

But now there's no shortage of British dream stories.

1:24.8

You've got no deems of how he with anything an even better story than such a javid.

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