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🗓️ 22 July 2025
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Kemi Badenoch is using the last day before the Commons recess to launch a reset of her leadership of the Conservative Party, while Nigel Farage is gearing up to spend his summer talking about crime.
Plus: What will JD Vance get up to in the Cotswolds?
Ed Vaizey unpacks the politics of the day with James Marriott and Sarah Ditum
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0:00.0 | I'm Ed Vasey and we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day and the stuff that's even more important than politics. |
0:11.2 | From the Badenock reshuffle that's currently underway to Kier-Starmer's achievements so far, |
0:16.7 | to the surprising news that the US Vice President J.D. Vance is coming to the Cotswolds for his summer holiday. |
0:24.5 | Now to two brilliant minds I would thoroughly enjoy holidaying with. |
0:30.0 | It's the Times is James Marriott. Welcome to the show. |
0:34.0 | Thank you for having me. Good morning. |
0:35.7 | And Sarah Dytum, welcome to the show. |
0:38.9 | Hello. That is a bold claim that you'd enjoy holidaying with me. I just came back from Cornwall |
0:44.7 | and one of the highlights was that I made my husband go for a walk up to tours in thick fog |
0:52.2 | with about 10 metres visibility and both of this got back to the car and |
0:57.8 | literally burst into tears. So if you think that sounds fun, by all means. I think you do really |
1:03.8 | do think that sounds fun and you were just reading out something that's been written for you. |
1:07.5 | That is correct, James Merriott. I was reading out my script and I can now confirm that I |
1:13.3 | never want to go on holiday with Sarah Ditum. So there you go. Nor do I... What? Some of it was nice. |
1:22.5 | Nor do I want Sarah Ditum in my Tory shadow cabinet. Not that it's my choice. Kemi Badenock is using the last day of Parliament. |
1:30.8 | It's not the last day of Parliament. It's the last day of the House of Commons. The House of Lords is going to slog away till Thursday lunchtime. |
1:36.9 | Anyway, she's launching the last day of the House of Commons to reset her leadership of the Conservative Party. |
1:42.3 | She's planning a shadow cabinet reshuffle. |
1:45.1 | We know that James Cleverly is going to return to a prominent front bench role, |
1:49.2 | and we know that a man called Edward Agar is no longer going to be the health spokesman. |
1:55.6 | Sarah Dytum, which shadow cabinet member do you want to be stuck up at all with? |
2:00.8 | No, do you have any interest at all in this shadow cabinet res do you want to be stuck up at all with no do you have any interest at all |
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