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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Political Podcast.

My name is John Connolly, and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and the new statesman Stephen Bush.

Now, this week, we're expecting to see a spectacle of violence, backstabbing and Machiavellian plots to take power.

No, it's not the new season of Game of Thrones. It's a continuing Tory party leadership contest.

Theresa May is away this week and Parliament is recess, but the contest shows no sign of stepping down.

Katie, who have we seen make their pitch this morning?

So there's various leadership contenders who are doing lots of things on what is

supposed to be a quiet recess week. I think to just set the scene, we have one story today is

ministers in the cabinet putting out the message that they don't want a Tory leadership

contest before the summer, because if you have them before the summer, they believe that will benefit

people like Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab, Brexiteers who say they want to renegotiate

the redrawal agreement and potentially with countenance a no-deal Brexit. So they want to play for

time and for that reason are happy for Theresa May to stay in place rather than be an immediate

move against her. There was some speculation

when we entered this longer extension that it might give the MPs the chance to have that leadership

contest, but you're already seeing some concern that given that it might not play out as they want,

they might not want to do it. Now, that doesn't mean that the ministers who don't want

an immediate leadership contest aren't parading. We have had Sajad Javid today give a speech

talking about crime and how he wants to be tough on the causes of crime. He's talking about

also his vision for society. Jeremy Hunt is in Japan and has been doing much broadcast. And then I think you can

look at Boris Johnson's piece in The Telegraph today, where he really seems to try and set out his

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