Is Kemi Badenoch another Liz Truss?

The News Agents

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🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The Tories suffered their worst electoral defeat for a hundred and fifty years in July. So why are they so upbeat this conference?

Today we introduce you to the four remaining candidates for party leader - frontrunner Robert Jenrick, Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat - and ask the biggest question of all. Why does Liz Truss still believe she can save Western Civilization?

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:09.6	This is a global player original podcast.
0:12.9	I've only been out of Parliament for a few months.
0:15.3	Right.
0:15.4	So I'm currently thinking about what to do.
0:19.1	What is certainly true is I'm not going to give up on this fight.
0:23.6	Right. I think this is the fight of our lifetimes, is saving Western civilization, and that is what I'm focused on.
0:32.6	Guess who that was? Oh, go on, go. Just give me another clue.
0:36.6	The woman who was the Conservative Prime Minister
0:40.7	right here in Birmingham just two years ago. Liz Truss, no longer an MP, the woman who crashed
0:50.8	the economy, the woman who lost her seat at the general election, the woman who
0:55.7	couldn't get an ex-prime minister's book into the bestsellers list, is nevertheless going
1:01.1	to save Western civilization. We can sleep easy tonight. Welcome to the newsagents.
1:10.9	The newsagents.
1:12.6	It's John.
1:13.7	It's Emily.
1:14.4	It's Lewis.
1:14.8	And it's Monday and it must be Birmingham.
1:16.6	And here we are at the International Conference Centre in Birmingham for the Conservative Party Conference,
1:23.4	which I have to say, having been coming to these events since Thatcher's penultimate conference,
1:29.4	this is the weirdest by about a million miles.
1:34.3	It is curiously upbeat. And I should say that something happens to your brain at about this
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