Summary
Half a dozen Tory leadership candidates remain.
As the number of candidates in the race to be the next PM is reduced, Chris looks at who’s in front, and who could pick up votes in the next few days.
Also, Laura is back in the studio to chat about her latest Panorama: The Downfall of Boris Johnson.’
And the BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan talks us through the political crisis in Sri Lanka.
This episode of Newscast was made by Tim Walklate with Chris Flynn, Ivana Davidovic and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, I hope you're enjoying the newscast takeover of the BBC Airwaves. |
| 0:09.7 | And if you missed any of it, here is a brief recap. |
| 0:12.8 | At 718 on Wednesday morning, five live played our strictly version of the Tory leadership |
| 0:18.8 | contest. |
| 0:19.8 | And finally, first in line for the line dancing, it's the Attorney General, Suella Braverma. |
| 0:28.0 | That was stolen with love from our friends at newscast, Alan Dedicoat there, the voice |
| 0:33.6 | of Strictly. |
| 0:34.6 | Then at 742, Greg James joined in on Radio One. |
| 0:39.5 | Let's cross now to the BBC's political editor, Chris Mason, who was on newscast a couple |
| 0:44.9 | of days ago. |
| 0:45.9 | He's been in this very busy time, if you're a political journalist at the moment. |
| 0:50.8 | And the heat wave was not welcome for Chris. |
| 0:53.2 | Let's be frank, Brits just don't do heat very well, do we? |
| 0:56.2 | We just look completely scruffy and undignified in the heat, I think. |
| 1:00.1 | Maybe I'm being unfound on those five. |
| 1:01.6 | I certainly did. |
| 1:02.6 | I certainly do. |
| 1:03.6 | Then at 825 on Radio Four, Catcher was interviewing Laura on this as a programme. |
| 1:09.4 | It is really only seven days since Boris Johnson said he'd stepped down as Prime Minister, |
| 1:13.8 | although it does seem a lot longer ago. |
| 1:16.5 | She joins me now morning, Laura. |
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