The Leadership Race... Any Questions?

Newscast

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Conservative leadership race is on, and rumours are swirling about which MPs will join Penny Mordaunt in putting themselves forward to become the next Prime Minister. Adam is joined by Rob Watson from the BBC World Service, and Will Walden, former communications director to Boris Johnson, to talk about the possible contenders - and ask whether Johnson could be eyeing up a return to Number 10 Downing Street. Stephen Jardine from BBC Radio Scotland , Trish Adudu from BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, and Jack Murley from BBC Cornwall let us know how their listeners have reacted to the news, and share insights from their phone-ins. This episode of Newscast is presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade and Alix Pickles. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.0	Hello, can you hear that classic, any questions and beyond?
0:09.9	I'm in the hot seat tonight, before Alex's recife takes over in a couple of weeks' time.
0:14.6	And tonight it's coming from the Orchard Hill Parish Church, which is in Giffnic, on the
0:19.6	south side of Glasgow, a couple of miles from where I grew up.
0:23.9	On the panel tonight, we've got Blair Jenkins, who ran the Yes campaign in the 2014 Scottish
0:29.3	Independence referendum.
0:31.1	Next to him is going to be Robert Janric, who is a health minister, but was the community
0:35.2	secretary under Boris Johnson?
0:37.6	Remember him.
0:38.7	Then next to him is Professor Sir John Cursace, from Strathclyde University, the polling
0:43.0	expert, who will keep us on the straight and narrow when it comes to facts and figures.
0:47.4	Then on my left is Emily Thornebury, the shadow attorney general from Labour.
0:51.8	And next to her is John Nicholson, who is the culture spokesperson for the S.N.P. at
0:57.8	Westminster.
0:58.8	And then if I scoot round and look at the body of the Kirk, there are a lot of seats
1:03.6	out there, definitely more than 100 people in the audience tonight.
1:07.3	What's quite weird though?
1:08.9	This sort of reminds me of a school carol concert, in terms of facts and figures about Giffnic,
1:13.7	what can I tell you?
1:14.7	It's the birthplace of Gordon Brown, the former prime minister, before he moved to Corkodie
1:19.5	on the other side of Scotland.
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