Hello and welcome to episode two of Not Another One.

Now for new listeners, last week we posed the question, how good is Kyr Stama and delve deep?

And today, we're going to pose a different question.

Are the Conservatives finished?

The context is obvious, dire opinion poll ratings, labour miles ahead, according to those polls,

and of course, in recent days, the return of Nigel Farage and reform,

raising all sorts of questions about the future of the Conservative Party.

And one of them is obvious, and we're going to explore that right away.

I'm Steve Richards. I'll reflect last

of all. First of all, Ian Martin, Nigel Farage. What's your broad take of Nigel Farage?

He is simultaneously the most consequential politician in the UK of the last 30 years, and also a menace. Now, I think he achieved a lot,

very important, but that what he's embarked on in this general election is a disaster,

not only for the Conservative Party, but because it's going to leave Britain potentially

without much of an opposition, which we'll all regret in the end.

Miranda Green.

Well, having shared many a sofa with him in other broadcast studios, I can see that he is a genius communicator,

absolutely brilliant at expressing a vision and a philosophy about what Britain and more to the point, England is, with which I

completely disagree. And I think as time goes on and the population changes, more and more people

in Britain will disagree with. Tim Montgomery, in your almost unique role as a commentator,

and as we were discussing last week, a bit of a player as well you've

already said if you were in clacton you would go out and support nigel farage why are you a

nigel forage fan because although i don't like a lot of his party i think there is a little bit of a

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