Head-to-head - Sunak and Truss fight it out to be Tory leader and PM
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, we delve into the positions and policies of the two final candidates in the contest to succeed Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and UK prime minister.
Who is likely to win the votes of the Tory party membership over the next six weeks?
Political editor George Parker and associate editor Stephen Bush analyse Rishi Sunak while economic editor Chris Giles and special guest Katy Balls, deputy political editor of the Spectator, look at Liz Truss.
Produced by Anna Dedhar and Howie Shannon. The sound engineers were Breen Turner and Jan Sigsworth
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| 0:31.0 | After a tense final stage of short listing, Richie Sunak and Liz Truss will go head-to-head |
| 0:37.0 | to be the next Tory party leader and Britain's next Prime Minister. |
| 0:41.0 | There were two spoil ballot papers. |
| 0:44.0 | The numbers of votes cast for each candidate is as follows. |
| 0:48.0 | Mortant, one zero five, Sunak, one three seven, Truss, one one three. |
| 0:57.0 | Therefore, Richie Sunak and Liz Truss will be the candidate's going forward |
| 1:03.0 | to a final ballot of Conservative party members. |
| 1:07.0 | Welcome to Payne's Politics, your essential insider guide to Westminster |
| 1:12.0 | from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne. |
| 1:15.0 | This week, we'll be looking at the two contenders to be the next Conservative leader. |
| 1:20.0 | First up, political editor George Parker and associate editor Steven Bush |
| 1:24.0 | will be looking at Richie Sunak and where the former chancellor, |
| 1:27.0 | with the most popular choice amongst MPs, |
| 1:30.0 | can make enough headway in the wider Conservative party. |
| 1:34.0 | And later, our economic editor Chris Jowles will be examining Liz Truss |
| 1:38.0 | with special guest Katie Bors from the Spectator magazine. |
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