Do the Tory Right know what they want?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

After the elections, Sunak’s right wing dissenters called off their planned coup even though the results were disastrous for the Tories, while outlining their agenda for the future… which is similar to the one Sunak is pursuing. Do they know what they are doing? Plus, the dangers of Keir Starmer walking into traps in his attempt to avoid others, and brilliant questions from the Rock & Roll Politics Co-operative. Rock & Roll Politics – The Pre-Election Special is live at Kings Place on July 10th. Tickets here. Rock & Roll Politics is live at the Edinburgh Festival from Sat Aug 11th. A different show every day. Tickets here. Support the podcast on Patreon for early, ad-free episodes, merchandise, special events and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards. Thank you for tuning in.
0:25.7	And what a busy few days it has been politically. And if it's okay with all of you, I'll try and delve deep about some of the lessons we have learned for the parties, a bit about for the BBC in its coverage,
0:41.0	and then over to you, questions, a lot of them about the implications of the elections and a few
0:46.8	other issues too. We cram in as many as we can. Before all of that, just very quickly a few notices.
0:53.6	And a big announcement.
0:57.1	Rock and roll politics live at the Edinburgh Festival this August.
1:02.1	Here are the details.
1:03.5	It's going to be at the usual venue for those of you who've come before.
1:07.5	It's at the amphitheatre, the space at Symposium Hall, from Sunday, August the 11th to
1:14.8	Saturday, August the 24th, a different show every day, deving delp, delving deep on all the stuff
1:25.7	whirling around in what will then be a feverish pre-election drama.
1:32.5	And yeah, you can get the tickets at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe website now.
1:38.6	They are on sale.
1:40.0	So from Sunday, August the 11th to Saturday, August the 24th.
1:43.8	And yeah, why don't some of you come up or down for the show and then have a few days at the festival?
1:49.2	It is fantastic.
1:51.0	By the way, this will be the 10th year for rock and roll politics at the Edinburgh Festival.
1:57.9	Missed out too because of the pandemic.
2:00.3	So the 10th year. And yeah, the pre-election drama
2:06.3	will have deepened by then, talking of which there's a pre-election rock and roll politics special
2:11.9	at King's Place in London. For those of you can't get to Edinburgh, and indeed for those
2:16.9	of you who can, because it
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