Exploding Head and Vomit Emojis: Tory MPs on WhatsApp
Leaders with Francine Lacqua
Bloomberg
4.6 • 64 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
As soon as Liz Truss resigned as prime minister, names of possible successors starting popping up. The reactions to some of those names was not so kind within the Conservative party--think exploding head and green vomit emojis, according to our political reporter Alex Wickham. In this episode of In the City, David Merritt and Francine Lacqua discuss the path to prime minister with Bloomberg reporter Ellen Milligan, and we hear insights from Wickham (like all the WhatsApp gossip), Tory MP Karl McCartney, and former Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable. Plus, Bloomberg finance editor Katherine Griffiths joins on what the political mess means to the City of London's reputation and whether business leaders feel the worst is over--or yet to come.
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| 0:55.2 | on apple spotify or anywhere you listen and that's what are the whatsapp like are there like a lot of |
| 1:01.5 | emojis there's a lot of emojis um yeah fascinating the head brain explosion one |
| 1:07.3 | brain explosion that's a good one brain explosion wait how many times, like, how many brain explosions were there on the WhatsApp? |
| 1:14.6 | I've had a lot of vomit emojis as well. |
| 1:16.6 | That's what that's come up a lot of just the idea of whatever person taking over. |
| 1:22.6 | Oh, really? |
| 1:23.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.6 | I honestly think the problem is 12 years. |
| 1:28.3 | They all hate, they all hate each other. |
| 1:29.8 | They've got personal reasons to hate each other. |
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