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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. The Spectator's daily politics podcast.

I'm Katie Bulls and I'm joined by James Forsyfe and Fraser Nelson.

We've just seen that Kaz managed to outlast Liz Truss as Prime Minister when it comes to the

lengths of the premierships that isn't to say that he is no longer facing problems from his back

benches. Pretty Patel has backed a new campaign to restore democracy within the Tory party.

This is led by Lord Craddis, a figure who has been very pro-Boris Johnson. The campaign which is

called the Conservative Democratic Organization appears to take issue with Rishi Sunex elevation

to number 10 without a membership vote and is calling for the membership to have more of a say,

whether it's on leader or on policy. Fraser, what do you see this as? It's just an alone

campaign that could be back up a part of a wider effort to make sure that someone

closer in to the grassroots is elected next time. At the moment it's a pretty lonely campaign

but it's significant because it's quite obviously an anti-Rishi campaign. We all know that Rishi

Sunex was not the winner of a leadership contest and that he was elected by, well, even elected by

Tory MPs, the only one who passed the threshold. So if any campaign saying we need more democracy

in the party is drawing attention to the rather undemocratic method that was used to select

Rishi Sunex. Now I myself have got no problem with that. Under our parliamentary system leaders

can choose however they want and the idea that if you have all Tory parties vote for somebody

that leader is somehow more legitimate than if a bunch of MPs choose them to mute is this for

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