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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. Each week, we choose three pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Oscar Edmonton,

and on the podcast this week. James Heel reads his politics column on Sunak's Migration Mindfield.

Michael Simmons says that Scotland's progressive teaching methods have badly backfired, and Mary

Wakefield asks, why can't I pray in Westminster Abbey? Up first, James Heel. At last week's

Spectator Parliamentarian Awards, Suella Bravman was awarded Disruptor of the Year. In her speech,

which seemed to preview her common statement on Wednesday, the former Home Secretary

joked that the prize ought, instead, to go to the man responsible for disrupting my plans

to cut the immigration numbers and deliver our manifesto pledge the Prime Minister.

Ritchie Sunex assembled supporters didn't laugh.

On the issue of migration, battle lines have been drawn between the Tory tribes.

The night before Bravan's speech to the Commons, a trio of right-wing groups assembled to plot their strategy.

Members were drawn from the European

Research Group, the Common Sense Group, and the new Conservatives. Around the same time,

the reinvigorated One Nation Caucus fared off a statement signaling their opposition to anything

that would undermine Britain's international obligations. Opinions differ as to the strength of each

faction.

One moderate questions why Sunak spends so much time listening to 15 new conservatives and not

106 one-nation members.

But a right-wing rival compares the One Nation caucus to an onion, suggesting its layers can be peeled

off with enough pressure.

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