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It is time for a new worker's party

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🗓️ 7 July 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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It is time for a new worker's party by The Spectator

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Spectator podcast. Subscribe from just £1 a week at spectator.com.uk.

0:10.9

Welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman. After another extraordinary week in politics,

0:16.3

with Nigel Farage resigning as UKIP leader and Labour MPs trying still to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn,

0:21.5

the Conservatives are in the middle of choosing a new leader for their party and a Prime Minister

0:25.3

for the country. Most Tory MPs are asking who should come next. But in their cover story for

0:30.6

this week's magazine, Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth ask what should come next. It's time, they say,

0:36.0

to make the Tories into the new workers party,

0:38.4

and appeal to the Labour voters who backed Brexit and may be prepared to consider joining the

0:43.1

Tories. They join me now, along with Matthew Paris, a columnist for The Spectator, and the Times

0:48.1

he writes in this week's magazine that Brexit has made him feel ashamed to be British.

0:53.1

Sir James, you said last week in the magazine that you felt

0:55.5

the Tories had much in common in spite of the feuding. And what did this great unifying agenda

0:59.9

that you and Fraser write about this week that will bring them back together? Well, I think it's essentially

1:04.1

social mobility and popular capitalism. It's understanding that the economy as it is today isn't

1:10.0

working well enough for those

1:11.7

not just at the bottom but those in the middle. But there is a sense and if you're going to

1:16.2

maintain support for kind of centre-right free market liberal economics, it has got to be a sense

1:21.3

that the economy is working for everyone and where it isn't, you have to be prepared to take

1:25.5

steps to try and make sure that it does.

1:31.2

Now, David Cameron was mocked Fraser when he tried to do these sorts of things,

1:33.5

when he first started out as Conservative leader.

1:38.4

How is this not a sort of wishy-washy shift to the sort of knotting hillset who are interested in things like chocolate oranges?

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