Isaac Levido’s warning to the Tory party

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

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Summary

With the Tories reeling from yesterday's poll in the Telegraph, it is interesting that the party’s official election strategist Isaac Levido was already scheduled to address Tory MPs last night. Levido ran the 2019 election campaign and holds clout with Conservative MPs. What did he have to say? Is the Tory strategy evolving?

Also on the podcast, Rallings & Thrasher have put out polling today which demonstrates how difficult it will be for Labour to achieve a majority considering the new boundaries. They will need a national swing of 12.7 per cent – higher than in 1997 and 1945. Are voters enthusiastic enough about Labour to provide such a huge swing?

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Isabel Hardman.

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0:19.3	Hello and welcome to coffee house shots.
0:21.0	I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Isabel Hartman. Now Katie, since we did the last recording of Coffey House
0:26.5	Shots, Eisilavido, the Tory campaign strategist, was last night giving a big speech to
0:31.6	conservative MPs at the 922 Committee.
0:33.9	Tell us more about that.
0:35.3	Yes, I think this was interesting timing because he had been booked in advance to speak on Monday
0:40.1	22, but of course what also happened on Monday was the
0:44.1	MRP poll we talked about yesterday, which suggested
0:47.5	that Kirszama was on course for an election to be held now
0:50.8	to win a majority of 120. And you've had figures such as David Frost
0:55.3	who are linked to the poll and had a role and also MPs who I think is known of
1:00.8	quite unhappy with where things are,
1:02.8	come out and say how awful is this we must act.
1:05.8	And for example, David Frost, I think, put in his accompanying piece,
1:09.2	you know, whatever the strategy is, if there is even a strategy obviously I'm loosely quoting it's not
1:15.3	direct it's not working we need to change and then you have Isaac Lovedo coming up and saying
1:20.5	here's the strategy here's a plan. So I think it was an opportunity for a bit of a
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