Show 364. Salma Shah *State of the Tories Special*
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Salma Shah is back!
The Tory strategist gives her entertaining assessment of Kemi Badenoch and how the Tories are doing.
This is such a great chat in which I have my centre-left prejudices thoroughly checked.
Talking about the Opposition has never been more fun.
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| 0:43.3 | Hello. Hello and welcome to the political party. |
| 0:45.0 | Today's guest is Salma Shah. |
| 0:46.0 | She's been on the show before. |
| 0:47.4 | She's always brilliant fun. |
| 0:51.5 | Worked for Sajid Javid as his special advisor in numerous government departments and is now a strategist for hire and is a fantastic brain. |
| 0:56.7 | And what's great about this is it's really easy when you're on the outside of any political |
| 1:01.2 | party or movement to presume things. And obviously I always try not to. I always try and |
| 1:06.0 | assume the best in some that I disagree with politically and personally. So it's so good to have some of |
| 1:14.8 | my thoughts checked a bit and given a different perspective. So this is so good about |
| 1:21.0 | Kemi Badenok and this trust and Boris Johnson and why some of the Tory leadership contenders |
| 1:25.0 | were saying some of the stuff that they said. |
| 1:29.1 | It's just fantastic insight. |
| 1:33.9 | And also, Sam was just a brilliant communicator and a really good talker. |
| 1:39.4 | So we do talk about why someone who values strong communications in a politician isn't standing for office herself or may or may not. |
| 1:42.9 | So it's just, it's always great fun and this |
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