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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast. I'm William Moore, the Spectators Features Editor.

Each week we take a look at some of the pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them.

In this week's episode, Rishi Sunak has fallen behind Liz Truss in the Tory leadership race. Can he catch up?

Plus, should the UK government crack down on China's emerging tech market?

And finally, what's the appeal of country pop music?

First up, our deputy political editor Katie Bulls has written this week's cover piece

on Rishi Sunak's Mad Dash to catch up with Liz Truss.

Katie joins us now with our economics editor, Kate Andrews.

Katie, for the cover piece this week,

you've written about the quite considerable gap

that Rishi has in the leadership race behind Liz Truss.

He was the favourite to win among Tory MPs until pretty recently. So

has it gone wrong for him? So I think objectively it's gone wrong for Rishi Senek in the sense

that it now looks quite hard, not impossible, but looks pretty uphill for him to win this

leadership contest. And I think a few factors outside of his control have to have ultimately

exacerbated the problem so the number one issue is time Rishi's already knew amongst

the grassroots he would behind pretty much any candidate probably not perhaps Tom Tungana but

you know the candidates most likely to end up he'd be behind them when it comes to

grassroots polling that was clear during the parliamentary stage but I think both he and his

supporters felt they would have the whole summer to try and persuade the grassroots to change their

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