Talk of a Tory regicide
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Just when the UK has finished surviving a battering from storm Isha Talk of Tory regicide is blowing its way in with storm Jocelyn. It’s safe to say your co-pilots are in for a turbulent week on the rocket.
Allison is still in favour of Conservatism which she thinks a leadership change could help encourage, whilst Liam thinks that talk of a possible revolt be put to bed until after the general election, to ‘save the Country’s nervous system’.
Will the upcoming by-elections in Wellingborough and Kingswood resolve this Tory leadership tussle?
Strapping into the rocket this week to give his take on the state of Irish / English relations is musical legend Feargal Sharkey. He also shares his thoughts on environmental policies, a cause which he feels passionately about.
And it’s the news we’ve all been waiting for as Allison’s furry friend makes her final descent to UK shores…
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Allison: ‘You think this is cold? Try living through the winter of 1963’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/01/17/you-think-this-is-cold-weather-dream-on/|
Read Allison: ‘Port Talbot has been sacrificed to the angry god of net zero’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/19/port-talbot-has-been-sacrificed-to-the-angry-god-of-net-zer/ |
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| 0:00.0 | 5. |
| 0:03.0 | There is not a single river in England that is currently graded as been in good ecological condition. |
| 0:11.0 | I was going to say that it's a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea but the problem here |
| 0:16.1 | Liam is that there's no deep blue sea it's a sort of pale murky yellowy orange-gy libbed-emme sea. |
| 0:21.6 | The possibility now of another Tory leadership change before the next |
| 0:26.3 | election that really should be put to bed. Any item of crazy news is always |
| 0:32.3 | greeted with mad, yes, but not as mad as importing a Turkish cat. |
| 0:40.4 | We have left off. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast of Allison Pearson. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello? |
| 0:49.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:50.0 | Last Friday, the Indian conglomerate Tata announced it was shutting down the last two |
| 0:55.2 | operational blast furnaces at Port Talbot where high quality steel has been |
| 0:59.6 | made for a hundred years and more. It's a story close to Allison's heart of course given her proud Welsh upbringing. |
| 1:06.5 | The co-pilot has family in Port Talbot where Tart is now set to layoff |
| 1:11.0 | two and a half thousand of 4,000 local steel workers dealing a body blow |
| 1:16.4 | to this proud steel-making town. |
| 1:19.0 | And I spent Friday reporting live from Port Orbit for GB News, where I talked to countless frightened steel workers |
| 1:25.4 | myself, as well as local union bosses. Back in Westminster, talk of Tory regicide is bursting |
| 1:31.8 | into the open. |
| 1:32.6 | Former cabinet minister Sir Simon Clark has launched a broadside in the telegraph, |
| 1:36.8 | arguing the Tory's face electoral massacre, |
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