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🗓️ 12 July 2022
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0:00.0 | The Mogcast, a fortnightly conversation with Jacob Rees-Mogg about the topics of the day. |
0:15.2 | Welcome to the 78th Mogast. This is Paul Goodman, editor of Conservative Home, in conversation with Jacob |
0:23.3 | Reese Mogg, who will be mindful as we begin this modcast that rather a lot has happened since we |
0:28.1 | met for the 76th, as Henry Hill did the 77th. Let's just start with a very simple question. |
0:36.8 | Now we know the Prime Minister is going, and there will be a new Conservative Party leader |
0:40.9 | and Prime Minister. |
0:43.1 | What went wrong? |
0:44.3 | It's a very difficult and sad question. |
0:50.3 | I think, first of all, the tone of British politics was deeply soured by the referendum result. |
0:58.6 | And there has been a degree of bitterness and hostility in British politics and irreconcilability that is abnormal. |
1:06.4 | And you saw that in the 2017-2019 Parliament, which was a terrible parliament, and a very aggressive one |
1:13.8 | internally. And then you saw it continue even after Boris Johnson had won a majority of 80. I'd |
1:22.1 | initially thought that it would go into the past, but it hadn't. There were still a lot of people |
1:27.0 | who believe that we should |
1:29.1 | never have left and that we should try and stay as close as possible to the EU, who personally |
1:36.4 | blame Boris Johnson for what has happened. And you see that in the very ungracious comments by |
1:41.8 | John Major, who wanted to break the completely normal |
1:44.7 | constitutional convention that her prime minister remains in office until its |
1:48.8 | successor is found. We've never had caretaker prime ministers in this country. We don't |
1:53.9 | need them. The Constitution works perfectly well. And so you see the bitterness |
1:59.6 | that comes from that. And then, yes, some mistakes were made. |
2:05.4 | Not one of them individually of sufficient importance to remove a Prime Minister, but with that base |
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