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The Leadership Race... What next?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Chris Mason and Alex Forsyth talk it all through with Adam Fleming. What will happen this week? How does the leadership race work? And how much support has each candidate got? Rishi Sunak says he is in the race to be the next Conservative leader (and prime minister), Business Secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg, tells the BBC that Boris Johnson "will clearly stand" and Penny Mordaunt (who had already declared she was going to run) says she regrets Liz Truss's mini-budget. This emergency Newscast was made by Sam Bonham. The studio manager was Matthew Cadman. The senior news editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts Hello!

0:05.8

After I recorded any questions in Glasgow on Friday night, I decided to stay for a couple

0:10.3

of days to hang out with some old school friends.

0:12.3

But I've basically spent the whole time looking at my phone to see what's happening with

0:16.1

the Tory leadership contest, which normally would mark me out as a political geek.

0:20.9

But this weekend marks me out as a member of the public in the UK, because the Conservative

0:27.0

Party is choosing yet another Prime Minister. And that's what we've all been doing this

0:30.2

weekend. And that's what we're going to discuss, where we've got to and what's going to

0:33.8

happen next on this episode of newscast.

0:36.2

Newscast. Newscast from the BBC.

0:41.5

We will deliver, we will deliver, we will deliver.

0:44.5

Be on the back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah, blah, blah.

0:48.8

I've absolutely apologised for using the word scorn.

0:51.8

Can't I? Enough is enough.

0:54.1

I'm actually very right-wing. Has to love Easter. Baby.

0:57.4

Only enough it was tractors though, I was looking at.

0:59.4

The Prime Minister is not under a desk.

1:02.0

I am virtually out of tools to help people now.

1:05.8

Hello, it's Adam in my friend's house surrounded by wine bottles, but actually fewer wine

1:10.2

bottles than there would have been if I didn't know there was a podcast coming.

1:14.2

That's a great introduction. Come on, you've got to paint more of a picture.

1:17.0

How many of you drunk from all of those?

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