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Coffee House Shots

Can Truss catch up with Mordaunt?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Tom Tugendhat has been knocked out of the Tory leadership race. With Rishi Sunak leading the pack, and Liz Truss, Penny Mordaunt and Kemi Badenoch in a cluster behind, who will come out on top? Max Jeffery speaks to Katy Balls and James Forsyth.

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0:17.9

Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the spectators daily and sometimes twice daily

0:22.4

politics podcast. I'm Max Jeffery and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and James Forsyth.

0:28.2

Tom Tuganhart has been knocked out of the Conservative leadership contest.

0:31.8

Katie, can you talk us through tonight's results?

0:34.0

Yes, so in the third ballot, as you say, Tom Tuganhart was knocked out. I don't think that's

0:38.2

a great surprise. I think that he'd look at the fact he came last in the second ballot.

0:42.5

This was expected. I think Tom Tuganhart only wanted to get to the TV debates. He achieved that

0:48.0

he did pretty well when it came to the polling of the general public. So in Friday's,

0:52.8

the first debate, the channel for debate, he actually came out on top and then he came second

0:57.2

in the general public polling when it came to the second ITV debate. Now, in a way, Tom Tuganhart's

1:04.2

whole pitch was effectively, I haven't been in government. I can criticise all these decisions

1:08.7

and I can criticise Boris Johnson the most of any candidate. So while I think it won him some

1:14.0

public plaudits in terms of the mix of voters sitting at home, many of them will not like Boris Johnson,

1:20.4

I don't think it did actually that much to endure himself to Tory MPs. And there is definitely a

1:25.2

sense that he, you know, by almost dismissing collective responsibility or, you know, being quite

1:31.7

critical of the decisions the minister had taken. I think it actually turned some off and he actually,

1:36.0

he lost a vote when he, when you look at his results compared to the second ballot.

1:40.7

Now, when you're looking at what else is there because I think that was fairly priced in. So

1:44.6

I think probably the more intriguing elements of this vote are that other candidates. So Rishi

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