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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu, the Spectator's assistant editor and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Michael Goff.

Now, the long march to a new Conservative Party leader has finally come to an end, and it is

Kemi Badernock, who has won earlier today.

Now, Katie, she was the favourite at the beginning and she has now won.

So we've come all the way around, would you say? Yes. And I think even before the contest was

officially called, back when everyone was saying Rishi Sunak is not going to last very long,

either pre or after an election, it was always seen as Kemi Badernax to lose. She was the person

who was talked about

as the most likely to get through. Back when you had the so-called plotters under Rishi

Sunak, it'll be all these stories about how they wanted Kemi Baderok to be the candidate, and

she was refusing to get on board with them, which I think was one of the several problems the

plot had. Then when the contest was called, I think there was a sense that she was the frontrunner.

But yet there have been various points in the contest, which has been spanning for several months,

in which it has seen that as though, yes, it's her to lose, but she could lose it.

And that was, I think one of the big challenges was getting to the final two.

In a way, you can 100% see a scenario where just a few small things going differently,

she wouldn't have been in the final two.

The fact that James Cleverley, who was in the front in the parliamentary round

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