The government minister who thinks the Tories are still winning
The News Agents
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🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We have a real live government Secretary of State with us in News Agents HQ today - David TC Davies insists the election still winnable for the Conservatives - and says if you want to see what Labour would do in power, then look at the mess unfolding in Wales. Is he missing something or are we?
Later, Peter Conradi - author of Who Lost Russia - takes us gently through all that is unfolding right now in Russia, Ukraine and Georgia, and why - despite the Western sanctions - it all speaks to a resurgent Putin.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. It's the day after Rishi Sunak's big pre-election speech, |
| 0:17.2 | trying to draw the dividing line between him and Kirstama and Labour represents a danger |
| 0:22.7 | going forward. Well, today on the newsagents, we have a serving cabinet minister in the studio |
| 0:28.6 | who wants to talk about that and wider issues too. We're going to hear why Labour are not really |
| 0:35.4 | doing as well as everyone thinks they are, |
| 0:38.3 | and why the Tories actually have every chance of winning the next election. |
| 0:44.5 | Does he really believe that? |
| 0:46.1 | Do his party really believe that? |
| 0:48.6 | And if so, why are so many leaving in their droves? |
| 0:52.9 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:58.0 | The Newsagents. |
| 0:59.9 | It's John. |
| 1:00.6 | It's Emily. |
| 1:01.2 | And I'm pleased to say that we're welcoming into Newsagents HQ, a cabinet minister today. |
| 1:06.5 | He is the Secretary of State for Wales, David T.C. Davis. |
| 1:13.6 | And there's so much to talk to you about David, not least Rishi-Soonak speech yesterday and what you made of that and a sense amongst your |
| 1:20.4 | colleagues of what they're feeling going into this election following the recent defections and |
| 1:26.1 | indeed people stepping down. But I want to start |
| 1:29.3 | with you where we ended last week, which was in Wales itself, in Port-Aulbert, at the steelworks |
| 1:36.9 | owned by Tartar that are actually going to shut down because this is going to be a moment, |
| 1:46.4 | not just for Wales, but for the whole of the UK, |
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