The Conservative party's very public nervous breakdown
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The Conservative party are scrapping it out to have their visions of the future of the party heard and things are getting messy.
Hannah Barnes, associate editor, is joined by Rachel Cunliffe, associate political editor, and Freddie Hayward, political correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:02.0 | Statesman. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes, |
| 0:07.0 | Associate Editor at the New Statesman, |
| 0:10.0 | and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | During the first few weeks of this new |
| 0:14.4 | Labour government will be bringing you daily episodes with the politics team as we analyze |
| 0:20.1 | the new direction for the country. I'm joined today in the studio by Rachel |
| 0:24.4 | Kunleif our associate political editor and Freddie Haywood a political |
| 0:28.3 | correspondent. I just want to kick off by speaking for at least one of our nations by saying, |
| 0:34.5 | come on England, well done. At least we have a good performance at last. |
| 0:38.0 | But a week ago the country headed to the polls and elected a new Labour government and rightly |
| 0:43.4 | we've been concentrating very much on the early days of this new administration. |
| 0:49.0 | But time today I think for a day at least to turn our attention to the opposition and frankly what on earth |
| 0:55.8 | is going on in the Conservative Party. |
| 0:59.0 | We mentioned yesterday that Rishi Sunak seems to have found a new discovered respect and composure and |
| 1:05.2 | dare I say sense of humour and and wit even. I think he seems more comfortable |
| 1:11.6 | more confident I think he seems to be enjoying being opposition leader a lot more than he ever enjoyed being Prime Minister. |
| 1:16.1 | I think he's enjoying not being Prime Minister. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 1:19.0 | Well maybe he knows this time is going to be quite limited as well, but the same cannot be said for the rest of his party |
| 1:24.6 | who seem to be scrapping out their various visions for the future of the Conservatives, but doing so very |
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