Show 290 - *Grant Shapps Live*
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
When the Prime Minister could fall at any point, talk to someone who knows what should happen next.
Grant Shapps is that someone and has a very clear view on how the next Conservative leader should be chosen. He's a crucial power player and will be instrumental in any future leadership contest. Grant also has some brilliant stories about serving in Boris Johnson's Cabinet, what it was like doing the Covid TV briefings and how Liz Truss sacked him. As well as being a passionate advocate of centre-right pragmatism, he's also an optimist... despite some hellish life experiences that could easily have destroyed his positivity.
This is an impeccably timed interview with a fascinating politician at the centre of what happens next.
Follow Grant on Twitter: @grantshapps
See Matt's completely rewritten stand-up show Clowns To The Left Of Me, Jokers to the Right on the following dates:
Fri 21 Oct - Bloomsbury Theatre
Fri 28 Oct - Bloomsbury Theatre
Tickets: https://www.mattforde.com/2022tour
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Forthcoming guests include:
7 Nov: David Dimbleby
14 Nov: Matt Hancock
5 Dec: Rachel Reeves
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Political Party. Today's guest is Grant Shaps and what incredible |
| 0:16.1 | timing as Liz Truss' leadership hangs by a thread to be joined by someone who is very |
| 0:22.7 | candid, very open about how he feels about Liz Truss, about how the next leader should |
| 0:27.5 | be selected and just his relationships with various Tory Prime Ministers. There's a brilliant |
| 0:31.7 | story about Boris Johnson in here before I come onto Grant in more detail and this is |
| 0:35.5 | a very, very special interview. My future guests are as follows. On the 7th of November |
| 0:40.9 | in a few weeks time, my guest will be David Dimbleby, host of so many editions of Question |
| 0:44.8 | Time. Of course, so many election night co-vigias on the BBC. A week after that, my guest |
| 0:50.8 | is Matt Hancock on the 14th of November. You don't need me to tell you why that's such |
| 0:54.5 | a special evening. And then on the 5th of December, the woman of the moment, Rachel Reeves, |
| 0:59.7 | the shadow chancellor, someone who knows it could be weeks, could be months before she becomes |
| 1:05.0 | a chancellor of the UK. And then on the 19th of December will be the Christmas special |
| 1:08.9 | and I'm on the verge of being able to announce who those guests are. I'm also doing two more |
| 1:14.6 | performances of my stand-up show Clowns to the left of me, Joker to the right on Friday |
| 1:18.9 | the 28th of October and on Friday the 20th. Sorry. Yeah, I mean, I am doing the 28th, but before |
| 1:24.2 | that I'm doing the 21st. So Friday the 21st of October and Friday the 28th of October, |
| 1:28.5 | basically the next two Fridays at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London. So coming onto Grand |
| 1:34.3 | Shaps and why this is so special, firstly, the timing of this is incredible. Secondly, |
| 1:40.8 | Grant has been really, he's one of those people who really thinks about these things. We |
| 1:44.8 | come onto his phone with all these spreadsheets and the sorts of data that he's been gathering |
| 1:48.2 | for years and years and years from Tory MPs. So this is somebody really closely monitors |
| 1:54.4 | the shifts in opinion, the likelihood of things happening and when. So on that level, it's |
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