Final two to replace Boris Johnson are clashing already
The Rundown by PoliticsHome
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🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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As the Tory party leadership contest comes down to the final two candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, supporters of the rivals Simon Hart and Greg Smith join Alain Tolhurst and Eleanor Langford from PoliticsHome to look ahead to where the second stage of the race to replace Boris Johnson will be won and lost, as the pair set out their competing views on taxation in an attempt to win over Tory party members.
The Rundown is presented by Alain Tolhurst and Eleanor Langford. The editor is Laura Silver. Produced by Nick Hilton for Podot.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a new podcast from Politics Home. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm your host, Alan Tolhurst. We've now reached the final stage in the race to replace Boris Johnson, |
| 0:14.1 | with Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss battling out to be the next Prime Minister. I'm Joan Park political |
| 0:18.9 | reporter Erna Lankford, and former Welsh Secretary |
| 0:20.9 | Simon Hart, who's backing Sunak, and the Tory MP for Buckingham, Greg Smith, who's a trust |
| 0:25.0 | supporter to discuss how the crucial final few weeks of the Tory leadership contest look set to shape up. |
| 0:32.2 | But firstly, before we kind of get on to where we are now, let's have a little rewind, |
| 0:36.6 | essentially, Ellie, two weeks ago, |
| 0:38.4 | as we did this, we were just about to wait for Boris Johnson to make his statement outside Downing |
| 0:43.2 | Street announcing that he was going to step down as Conservative Party leader and therefore as Prime |
| 0:47.5 | Minister over the summer. You know, how things have progressed in those two weeks. We had, I think, |
| 0:51.6 | 11 candidates were now down to two how do we get to |
| 0:54.3 | this point now it was a bit for mad scramble obviously no one was fully expecting there to be a leadership |
| 0:59.7 | race a month ago and so yes we had quite a broad range of candidates when it first went out a lot of |
| 1:07.3 | campaigns which seemed quite last minute a lot of people thought oh well now's my chance |
| 1:11.3 | to my hand to the ring raymond chesty for example raymond chisney who we had on our podcast last week |
| 1:15.9 | and uh made his bid unfortunately unsuccessful great loss yeah and over the weeks we've had various votes |
| 1:23.2 | and one by one people have been knocked out so most recently and we had penny more than yesterday yeah can bad knock got knocked out. So most recently, and we had Penny Morden |
| 1:27.8 | yesterday. Kim Badnock got knocked out and Tom Thuggenhut. And they were like the final five. |
| 1:32.9 | They were the ones that did the debates over the weekend. I'm sure a lot of listeners saw |
| 1:36.4 | those on Channel 4 and ITV. And I guess the final round was on Wednesday, final votes. And Liz |
| 1:43.0 | just managed to scrape back through going from third place back into second. |
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