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Coffee House Shots

Can Rishi catch up?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

So far, most polls of Tory members show that they'd prefer Liz Truss to Rishi Sunak when it comes to the next Conservative party leader. With ballots for the membership phase going out at the beginning of August, it's vitally important for Sunak to break through to members as soon as possible. Can he catch up? Katy Balls talks to James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson.

Produced by Cindy Yu.

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0:16.5

Hello and welcome to CoffeeHasShots,

0:18.3

suspected it is daily and sometimes more than daily politics podcast.

0:22.2

I'm Katie Balls and I'm drawing by James Forsyfe and Fraser Nelson

0:25.6

and it is day one of the national campaign when it comes to the Tory leadership

0:29.4

contest. Fraser, this trust has been keeping a fairly low profile when it comes to broadcast

0:35.6

interviews. She's given her first broadcast interview the contest this morning

0:39.8

on the day program. You were there to offer some snap analysis straight after.

0:43.6

What did you make of it? Of course, her first broadcast interview was

0:46.7

spectator TV a couple of days ago. Her second one was on the day program and there

0:51.2

I was actually quite impressed. I thought she came out fighting. She was really doubling

0:55.7

down on being the candidate of change and she was ready for the counterattacks.

1:01.4

Can you name one or columnist who backs you etc etc?

1:04.8

Which for her is quite helpful really because this is a sort of argument

1:09.8

which the Brexiters and most arbitrary party members are used not listening to

1:14.2

given that most economists didn't see inflation coming, didn't see the crash coming.

1:18.8

It's not particularly potent charge right now. The more that she was accused of being radical

1:25.6

unworkable, the greater difference she was able to demonstrate with Richie Suneck

1:30.4

who is really surprising me by the extent that she seems to be positioning herself as a candidate

1:36.2

of continuity. Now this is I think it's a bit of a puzzle M here because there's almost like two

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