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Visit can-dowealth.com for more information. Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.

On this week's episode, I'll be talking about the return of Tory slees, discussing the decision

to send Western tanks to Ukraine, and looking at the rewilding of bison in Kent.

First up, will Rishi Sunak be buried under 12 years of Tory baggage? That's the question that the

spectator's political editor Katie Balls asks in her cover piece this week. She joins me now alongside

long-serving civil servant and government advisor Jill Rutter. Katie, to start with, could you bring

us up to speed with the many fires that Rishi Sunak is currently trying to put out?

Yes. So I think when Rishi Sunak first obviously became Prime Minister, second time lucky,

he gave a speech on the steps of 10 Downing Street where he said he was going to make sure his government is one of integrity.

And it was read quite widely, I think intended to say after some of the psychodrama

of the Boris Johnson years, the scandal, and obviously Liz Truss has short-lived premiership,

this was a return to sensible government and putting much of this soap opera behind. And then there was

a question of Rishi's Tenex poll ratings, which are higher than the Tory parties.

And therefore, could he bring the Tory party up, or actually will the Tory party just bring him down?

And I think with these scandals which are rearing their head, there's a sense of perhaps it's more likely to be the latter at the moment, unless you can find a way through.

So the biggest one is Nadim Zahawi, and this is the fact that the current Tory party chairman is reported to have to pay a million-pound figure sum as a penalty to HMRC as part

of a multi-million pound settlement on his tax affairs. This is one that does go back to Boris Johnson,

because Boris Johnson appointed this man as Chancellor when it seems to say there was an

investigation ongoing. Rishi Suneck and Liz Trust both say that when they then appointed

as a Harry to their cabinets, they were told by officials that there was, you know, no outstanding

issue. Everything was settled. So therefore there's a bit of a blame game going on in the

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