Rishi Sunak has a political mountain to climb
The Rundown by PoliticsHome
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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Stephen Crabb, a Conservative former cabinet minister joins PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst, Eleanor Langford and Adam Payne to discuss the UK’s third PM this year. Crabb believes “the right outcome has been achieved” with Sunak's appointment and was relieved when Boris Johnson ruled himself out of the leadership race, after telling the former Prime Minister that “the Conservative Party is not going to wear it” if he returned to No.10 after months of scandal. But the chaos of Liz Truss has left Sunak and the Tories with "a political mountain to climb” as he seeks to unify his party at its most fractious.
Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm your host, Alan Tolhurst, and joining me this week to mark the arrival of our third |
| 0:13.3 | Prime Minister this year and my two colleagues, Adam Payne and Eleanor Langford. And we're also delighted |
| 0:18.4 | to have on Conservative MP and former Cabinet Minister Stephen Crabb. So it's been another momentous week. I feel like we say that every |
| 0:26.0 | time. I think I banned that early this year that you could say Mementous Week on the podcast, |
| 0:29.6 | but it really has been another one of those. So we started on Monday with the results such as they |
| 0:35.6 | were of the Conservative Leadership Contest. Adam, just talk us through |
| 0:38.9 | what happened on Monday as we found out that Sunak was going to become the next Prime Minister. |
| 0:43.6 | The question heading into Monday was, would Rishi Sunak essentially be unchallenged and be |
| 0:50.0 | confirmed as an ex-Prime minister and Tory leader on Monday, or would Penny Morden attract enough |
| 0:55.2 | support to get on the ballot herself? And right up until the last minute, I don't think she put |
| 0:59.7 | that tweet out confirming that she'd pull out until, what, five or ten minutes before the |
| 1:04.4 | 2 p.m. deadline, yeah. Graham Brady statement in Parliament. The question Monday afternoon was could Penny Morden pick off enough |
| 1:13.2 | MPs who were planning to vote Boris Johnson before he announced that he wouldn't actually |
| 1:17.5 | be running after a weekend of briefing that he would? That was a question. I think her team said |
| 1:22.7 | she managed to get 90 nominations from MPs, but she needed 100 to get over the line. |
| 1:28.3 | Rishi Sunat was confirmed as Prime Minister, with it must be said, a pretty strong mandate |
| 1:32.6 | from the Parliamentary Party. It didn't go to the Tory Party members because as set out |
| 1:38.1 | in the rules, they didn't need to do that because he'd got the sufficient threshold. And then |
| 1:43.2 | Rishi Sunat, next Prime minister, he was sworn in on |
| 1:46.0 | Tuesday. And he went to, you know, see the king. And we had all that choreography of Liz Truss and |
| 1:52.0 | soon out going back and forth to Buckingham Palace. And since then, it's been this actually quite |
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