Gloves off in Tory leader race
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
It's full-contact battle as Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak face off to become the next Prime Minister.
So who better to join our co-pilots on the rocket of right thinking than Dame Andrea Leadsom, campaign manager for former front runner Penny Mordaunt, and a one-time Tory leadership contender herself. Dame Andrea takes aim at political 'black ops' and says it's painful to see candidates publicly 'taking lumps out of each other.'
Co-pilot Pearson predicts that Liz Truss will be the one to cinch victory. But Allison is concerned about the effect that a Truss premiership could have on maintaining the red wall.
Liam agrees that Sunak might lose out to Truss, arguing that his lack of political experience is coming to the fore and suggesting the former Chancellor shouldn't have run for leader at such an early point in his career.
And our listeners have their say on who they think should be the future leader of the country…
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| 0:00.0 | The telegraph. |
| 0:02.0 | The telegraph. |
| 0:03.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | If things go as badly as they are going for Soonak, |
| 0:13.0 | then by the weekend papers we could see some pretty sleazy stuff. |
| 0:18.0 | Or... |
| 0:19.0 | It's quite painful for people who've sort of worked alongside each other for a long time, |
| 0:23.0 | who are now sometimes taking lumps out of each other. |
| 0:26.0 | Three. |
| 0:27.0 | Do you think he's run too early to become Prime Minister? |
| 0:31.0 | Could he have waited on the back benches for a bit longer? |
| 0:35.0 | It's a case of two little, two late from him, five more weeks to go, |
| 0:42.0 | but I think Liz Truss has already won it. |
| 0:52.0 | And welcome once again to Planet Normal, |
| 0:54.0 | the telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello. |
| 0:58.0 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 0:59.0 | Well Alison, you go away for a couple of weeks and it all kicks off. |
| 1:03.0 | No sooner had you packed your bucket and spade for a fortnight in the sun. |
| 1:07.0 | And the Tories, |
| 1:08.0 | Sean of your guiding influence, |
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