Summary
Matt Hancock is in the studio to talk about why he’s backing Rishi Sunak to be the next leader of the Conservative Party, as Suella Braverman exits the race. Adam, Chris, and Victoria also discuss why and how Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt has become the bookie’s favourite.
And we talk to the former health secretary about the pressures on the NHS and what it was like to be in government at the height of the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Victoria and Chris, would you like an update |
| 0:06.8 | from the newscasts Tourerie Leadership ice cream news desk? |
| 0:10.3 | Oh, great. |
| 0:11.3 | You may not know what that is, Victoria, |
| 0:12.7 | if you've not been listening to every single episode |
| 0:14.4 | we've done. |
| 0:15.2 | Go on, go on. |
| 0:16.2 | We've been asking each of the contenders |
| 0:17.8 | in the Tourerie Leadership contest their teams. |
| 0:20.6 | What ice cream their candidate most identifies with? |
| 0:23.4 | Why? |
| 0:24.3 | I mean, I know it's hot, but why? |
| 0:25.8 | Because it's hot, you hear the nail in the head? |
| 0:28.2 | So the first answer came from Nadine Zahawai. |
| 0:30.6 | His team said he was a zoom |
| 0:32.1 | because his record of delivery is out of this world. |
| 0:34.5 | And it's now out of this context. |
| 0:35.7 | Yeah, it clearly helped him. |
| 0:36.6 | Tom Tuganat's team said he likes all ice creams, |
| 0:39.0 | but they shared an anecdote of him being mistaken |
| 0:41.2 | for someone called Hagen Das, |
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