Can Rishi steady the ship?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We have a new leader of the Conservative party. After Penny Mordaunt dropped out of the race just seconds before the deadline, Rishi Sunak will become the next prime minister. But he inherits a disunited party, war in Ukraine and a huge economic mountain to climb. What comes next?

James Forsyth and Katy Balls discuss.

Produced by Max Jeffery and Oscar Edmondson.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management.
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0:16.9	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,
0:18.6	suspected as daily and sometimes more than daily politics podcast.
0:22.4	I'm Katie Bulls and I'm joined by Jane Forsyth.
0:25.4	So James, we now have a new Tory leader,
0:29.0	not yet Prime Minister.
0:31.7	Yep, so the king is returning to London,
0:34.7	but apparently Liz Truss wants to do a cabinet tomorrow,
0:37.2	and I think there is some uncertainty about who will do PMQ's on Wednesday.
0:41.8	And it's also worth remembering, I think,
0:43.4	from the point of view of the machinery of government.
0:45.6	No one was quite sure, even at kind of 1.30 today,
0:49.0	whether this contest was going to Friday,
0:51.2	or whether it was going to wrap up today.
0:53.0	And it ended up wrapping up today,
0:54.4	because Penny Warden didn't get 100 nominations
0:56.7	she needed on the ballot to get on the ballot paper.
0:59.1	So I think we now are in this slightly odd interregnum period,
1:02.0	where Rishi Sunak is leader of a Conservative party,
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