Did Tory MPs go rogue? The mystery solved

The News Agents

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Lewis, Jon and Emily have all been speaking to various Tory MPs either running the campaigns or voting in the leadership race. Together we work out what actually happened behind the scenes, and the buyers regret some are now feeling.

Later, Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and now Nexus, on why information and truth are two completely different things.

And lastly, the GetJimAJingle campaign reaps succulent rewards from our listeners.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:08.2	This is a global player original podcast. We didn't do it. I didn't make it through. And that is
0:15.2	massively disappointing for me. But one of the things that has really lifted my spirits is how many people have given me
0:24.6	and the team so much support. So I want to say a huge thank you to you all, could not have done
0:32.3	any of this without you. Makes me proud to be a conservative, makes me proud that we can pull together as a team.
0:39.7	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
0:42.1	That was James Clevely, gracious in defeat, after having been knocked out of the Tory leadership race from poll position.
0:52.0	His voice conceals the question.
0:54.8	Many have been asking in the last 12 hours,
0:58.3	what on earth was that about?
1:00.3	What happened?
1:01.5	And when we came to record the podcast yesterday,
1:05.3	it was probably a little breathless,
1:08.1	almost giddy, because we couldn't believe the result that had unfolded.
1:11.6	So we've been trying to piece together what happened, and we think we have. Welcome to the newsagents.
1:21.6	The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. And a little bit later in the program,
1:26.9	we'll be speaking to Yuval Noah Harari.
1:30.0	The author of Sapiens and his new book, Nexus, asks us to think about information versus truth.
1:37.1	And whether more information actually just means we're getting more stuff wrong.
1:42.2	So it's a good leaping off point to discuss the Conservative Party.
1:45.4	What, homo sapiens?
1:46.5	Well, no, the fact that there's a awful lot of information and not a lot of truth.
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