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Coffee House Shots

Hunt and Zahawi out: who will mop up their supporters?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The first ballot of the Tory leadership contest is now over, with Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi knocked out as they weren't able to meet the 30 votes required in this round (on 18 votes, Hunt actually lost two supporters from yesterday's nomination round). The question of who their supporters fold in behind next is the biggest for the next 24 hours. On the podcast, Cindy Yu talks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls about the big night ahead for the remaining six leadership contenders, as well as the battle for the right of the party between Liz Truss, Kemi Badenoch and Suella Braverman.

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0:00.0

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0:16.7

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots.

0:18.4

Expectators twice daily these days politics podcast.

0:22.2

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Bors and James Forsyth.

0:25.9

So Katie we just had the results of the first round of the leadership

0:29.6

contest. Tell us what are they.

0:32.0

So you've had two candidates knocked out Nadeem Sahori in Jeremy Hunt.

0:35.6

Jeremy Hunt received 18 nominations. That means he's actually lost something

0:39.5

yesterday given he had to have 20 to be on the ballot.

0:42.0

And I think it also just points to the fact that Tom Tuggenhardt who has made it for

0:45.1

37 nominations is the chosen one nation candidate.

0:49.0

He has much more momentum behind him, which has hurt Jeremy Hunt.

0:52.6

And then he had Nadeem Sahori also knocked out.

0:54.8

He had 25 nominations, but you need to have 30 to progress.

0:59.7

But I think when looking at Nadeem Sahori it's interesting in the sense that

1:03.6

he was I think in recent years we've been talked of as potential unity candidate,

1:08.5

but I think the past week's been very difficult for him.

1:11.2

I think his decision to take a promotion from Boris Johnson after he's soon

1:14.6

resigned to learn 24 hours later or even less than 24 hours.

1:19.6

Effectively joined in delegation of ministers calling for the Prime Minister to go

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