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🗓️ 31 October 2024
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The membership voting has now closed on the Tory leadership race. By Saturday we will have a new leader of the opposition. What flavour will that conservatism be? Robert Jenrick released a video this week warning of conspiracy and cover up over the Southport killings. Does he no longer believe in the rule of law? And is this a winning strategy for his party?
Later Elon musk is having his (literal) day in court over his big cash give aways. And Donald Trump is pretending to be a garbage collector.
Meanwhile, Lewis has started hosting his own radio phone in show in Florida. Just another crazy day in election town.
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0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
0:08.3 | This is a global player original podcast. As the dad of three daughters, the Southport attack |
0:14.4 | hit me personally. Of course, the legal process needs to be respected, but I'm seriously |
0:20.5 | concerned that the facts may have |
0:22.4 | been withheld from the public here. The government and authorities told us for months that |
0:28.0 | they were not treating this as a terrorist incident. But today, the attacker has been charged |
0:33.5 | with terrorist offences, and it has been revealed that he has been allegedly reading terrorist |
0:39.4 | manuals. This atrocity was of immense public concern. The public had the right to know the truth |
0:47.0 | right away. That was Robert Jenrick, one of the two candidates for the Tory leadership. |
0:53.5 | And the votes have just closed on that contest, |
0:57.4 | he could be, by Saturday night, the next leader. |
1:01.3 | So why has he taken to social media to start spouting conspiracy theories? |
1:07.1 | But since when does the public have a right to know immediately about legal process, |
1:13.4 | the wheels of justice turns slowly? What is Robert Jenrick going to do to the Conservative Party |
1:19.9 | if he wins? Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John. |
1:28.4 | It's Emily. |
1:29.2 | And let's go back to earlier in the week when the police laid additional charges against the man who's been accused and charged of murdering the three young kids who were at a Taylor Swift dance class in Southport in the summer holidays. |
1:48.6 | And the additional charges are that he was in possession of material, that was of a terrorist nature, |
1:54.8 | and possibly in possession allegedly of ricin. |
2:00.0 | And this has sparked in turn, Well, why weren't we told immediately from Robert |
2:07.0 | Genrick? Yeah. And it is worth remembering that Robert Jenrick is actually a lawyer. I mean, |
2:12.8 | we think he has been legally trained. He's worked as a lawyer. He's meant to understand due |
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