Matt Warman on the future of the Conservative Party, the Rwanda Bill and the next general election
The UK in a Changing Europe Podcast
The UK in a Changing Europe Podcast
4.3 • 105 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. |
| 0:09.3 | Welcome to this latest in our series of Unlocked. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm delighted this evening to be joined by Matt Wormann, |
| 0:15.6 | Conservative MP for Boston and Skegness since 2015. |
| 0:19.1 | Yes. |
| 0:20.0 | With a majority, we should mention your majority, you have over 25,000, I believe. |
| 0:23.6 | At the moment. |
| 0:25.6 | You've been a Minister of State, you've been a parliamentary Under Secretary for Digital. |
| 0:31.6 | I've been told I have to ask you questions about digital because you were a technology editor |
| 0:35.6 | at the Daily Telegraph as well, but I mean, it doesn't matter what your answer is on the digital questions because I |
| 0:40.4 | will understand them. |
| 0:41.1 | So that'll be an easy bit we'll do towards the end. |
| 0:43.2 | Good to know. |
| 0:44.0 | And finally, because we have to say these things and know where people stand, you supported |
| 0:47.5 | Rishi Sunak Overlist Trust in the 2022 leadership campaign. |
| 0:52.9 | I'm never sure what questions to ask. You know, there should be |
| 0:54.6 | leave versus remain who you supported in leadership campaigns. You build up a picture. But just, |
| 0:59.1 | I mean, you're a prominent. I think you're one of the senior people in the One Nation group |
| 1:04.1 | of Conservative MPs. Just tell us what that group is, will you, for the record. |
| 1:08.6 | So I think I'd characterize One Nationers as the pragmatists in the middle ground of the party. |
| 1:14.6 | Like in terms of numbers, it's the single biggest block. |
| 1:19.6 | There's sort of 100 plus that are sort of more or less openly declared in that sense. And it's pragmatism that characterises |
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