Do the Tories have a death wish?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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James Heale speaks to Katy Balls ands Craig Oliver, former director of communications in No. 10.
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| 0:15.4 | Hello and welcome to the special Saturday edition of coffee house shots. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm James Seal and I'm joined by the Spectators Political |
| 0:24.0 | Editor Katie Balls and Craig Oliver, former Downing Street Director of Communications and now a partner |
| 0:28.6 | at FGS Global. |
| 0:29.6 | Katie, the Tories have again dominated this week. Simple question we're asking on today's podcast, |
| 0:34.4 | do they have a death wish? |
| 0:35.9 | So Ella Braverman was asked this question |
| 0:38.4 | this week by Nick Robinson on the Today program, |
| 0:40.9 | and she said, no, not at all now there are some who think |
| 0:45.2 | Sierra Barraverman does have a deaf wish for the Tory party in the sense that |
| 0:49.1 | she's clearly railing against at the moment Ritchie's plan B on Rwanda and we have lots of MPs |
| 0:56.2 | consulting one another but I think when it comes to answering that question it's not just |
| 1:00.4 | about the boats bill though I think this is symptomatic of the issue |
| 1:06.1 | I think it's just a question after last year when the party as to two leaders and then |
| 1:12.2 | we've had a relative period of calm. |
| 1:14.1 | Now, it could be that Ritchie-Sunach |
| 1:16.0 | manages to calm the troops and actually next Tuesday |
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