Welcome to the Euro Intelligence Podcast. I'm Wolfgang Munchau, and with me are Zazana Muncheng and Jack Smith.

Today we would like to talk about Brexit and the Conservative Party and about the Franco-German

relationship and what's left of it. Now, as we're recording this podcast on Friday morning, you know, List Trust has resigned,

but no new conservative leader has been elected. We assume that is still the case when you

listen to this, but events in British politics are moving past. Jack, can you tell us where we are

on this? In terms of where things go from here, she and the kind of conservative party at large,

the backbenchers committee, have said that they want the process to be concluded by the end

of next week. Now, this is a process that will include the conservative membership, having a

vote on the final kind of candidates for the leadership, but the threshold of MPs that you will need

to nominate for the leadership has been raised to 100.

Well, the idea is clearly to get Rishi in.

But it's the same thing.

We've written about this so many times before, about, you know, various countries trying to rig their voting system,

like Italy is a particular

case, where they tried it several times. Usually it goes against the person who rigs, who does the

rigging. And in this case, either it's counterproductive and Boris gets over 100, and if he gets over

100, he will be the next prime minister. Or it is, it works, and Rishi gets crowned on Monday, and then

all hell will break loose because people will suddenly realize that the system was rigged

to disenfranchise the conservative voters. This is a really bad decision to. Just like it was a bad

decision for Belosconi and Rensie and various other Italian politicians trying to rig the Italian voting system because it actually worked against them. These attempts are usually

futile. Yeah, I think there are a couple of things I want to say about this. First thing is that there

is an important substantive difference between what happens with the electoral laws in Italy and this,

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