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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. I'm

Elizabeth Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup. The starting gun has been fired in

the race to be the next Prime Minister. Ten Conservative MPs have already thrown their

hat into the ring and Sophie Rae was spoke to the man who kicked off this process, the

now former Health Secretary, Sajid Javid. Javid resigned his post on Tuesday, being shortly

followed by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak. Rae was asked him if there had been any coordination

behind their departure from the government. Had you decided that you wanted to be Prime Minister

before you sent that tweet? No. Actually the first time I started thinking

about properly resigning was this time last week actually and I'd been sort of struggling

with this decision for a while. I'd been giving the benefit a doubt of the doubt again

and again and then on Tuesday morning I went to this National Prayer Breakfast in Parliament

and might sound a bit strange but I was listening to the sermon by this amazing man,

Reverend Lezizer, he started street passers and I was listening to him talk about the

importance of integrity in public life and just focusing on that I made up my mind, I went

straight back to my office and drafted a resignation letter and went to see the Prime Minister

later in the day. And it had the effect because Rishi Sunak followed you

straight after. There are people who think that that was a coordinated decision to move.

Did you speak to Rishi Sunak before you resigned? Did he know you were about to resign?

Not at all. I had no idea what he was going to do and I could understand what he did

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