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Coffee House Shots

Does Simon Clarke’s intervention matter?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Tory MP Simon Clarke called for Rishi Sunak to resign last night. In a piece in the Telegraph, he wrote that the Prime Minister was ‘uninspiring’ and ‘does not get what Britain needs.’ Will other Conservative MPs also demand Sunak resign, or will they unify around their leader?

Oscar Edmondson speaks to Katy Balls and James Heale.

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0:15.4

Hello and welcome to coffee house shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Oscar Edmondson and I'm

0:24.3

I'm Oscar Minton and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and James Heel.

0:26.7

So Simon Clark took to the telegraph yesterday to call for Ritchie soon

0:30.9

act to be ousted as leader of the Conservative Party,

0:34.3

warning colleagues to act now or face an electoral massacre.

0:38.2

Katie, is this the beginning of the end for Rishi Sunak?

0:41.2

All premierships come to an end eventually,

0:43.3

and I think probably the biggest threat still for Rishi Sunak

0:45.6

is that his primership will end

0:47.8

when voters go to the polls.

0:49.5

And if you'd go by any opinion polling right now

0:52.3

is looking incredibly difficult for the Tories to turn things around and manage even a narrow victory.

0:58.0

Is it a viable prospect that Simon Clark and other rebels could make it so Ritchie student does not get to that point and they stop him before he goes to polling day and bring someone else in.

1:10.0

In the telegraph piece that Simon Clark has written, he does accept that some may think it's maybe a bit much to get rid of another Tory leader before the next election.

1:20.0

He accepts that to someone on the outside, he realizes how it might look but he makes the case that despite this it is a party's best bet

1:29.9

That says that Ritchie has become become a liability, ultimately that situation is only going to get worse,

1:36.1

and argues that you need a leader of a different pitch, so to speak, one more focused on boats

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