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I'm going to Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics.

I was going to say the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards,

but this is an emergency podcast, a bonus podcast. So it's the

twice weekly podcast in these silly times with me, Steve Richards. I'm just popping up to say,

well, she's gone, Liz Truss, after a few weeks. And I thought we better all get together to reflect briefly before we reflect in more depth next week.

What I find so interesting is that Truss is the fourth Prime Minister to fall since the Conservatives came back to power in 2010.

And all of them have fallen between elections. Not one of them have left office because they were defeated at a general election.

But they were removed or chose to leave while still in office.

Cameron left in 2016, having lost the Brexit referendum, but remember a year before he had,

albeit by a small margin won a general election.

Then up popped Theresa May.

She was forced out in 2017.

In came Johnson.

He was forced out last July.

And now trust goes two.

It is the most extraordinary sequence and pattern, which tells us a lot about the modern Conservative Party, particularly the parliamentary party. The pattern tells us this,

that, and we've discussed this many times on the podcast,

the electorate are quite often willing to vote in the Conservative Party, whatever state they're in,

certainly voters in England. They can win elections, but the modern Conservative Party,

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