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Coffee House Shots: has the next Tory leadership contest started?

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🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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With Katy Balls and James Forsyth.

Presented by Lara Prendergast.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Political Podcast. I'm

0:08.2

Nara Prendergast and I'm today joined by James Fusife and Katie Balls. So James, she survived.

0:13.9

What's the aftermath been this morning? It's almost the ultimate indeterminate result.

0:19.5

She's done sufficiently badly but she can't shake it off, but it's not so bad, but it's

0:24.8

going to finish off her premiership.

0:26.5

So the Tory party is stuck in, our dear friend Jeffrey Cox would say, is stuck in limbo.

0:31.7

You know, it is in Dante's first circle of hell, just going round and round again.

0:36.3

And this is the problem, which is, you know, over a third of her parliamentary party, you don't

0:41.0

have confidence in her, which in a hung parliament means that she's got no chance getting big

0:46.7

legislation through, obviously, has the implications for Brexit.

0:50.4

Yet at the same time, they don't have enough votes to get rid of her.

0:54.0

So we are stuck.

0:56.9

I mean, the big takeaway from yesterday is that she's fired the starting gun on the next tour leadership contest

1:02.4

because she has said that she won't fight the next election.

1:05.3

So therefore, you know, you are going to see more and more cabinet ministers

1:08.6

and other people who think they should be the next leader,

1:11.3

kind of coming out to set out their stall. But obviously the biggest question for the country

1:15.0

isn't who the next prime minister is going to be, but what happens with Brexit? And I don't

1:19.6

mean that was made any clearer by what happened yesterday. Yeah, we know that Theresa May is still

1:25.6

going to have a lot of difficulty trying to get this through. And I think when it comes to Yeah, we know that Theresa May is still going to have a lot of difficulty trying to get this

1:27.9

through.

1:29.2

And I think when it comes to that, we also saw that in order to even get the votes that she

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