The Plot: part II

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🗓️ 25 January 2024

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Summary

Rishi Sunak seems to be facing his own 'plot'. But unlike in Nadine Dorries' now infamous book, it's not a secret cabal orchestrated by Dougie Smith hoping to depose him, but a mysterious rebel group, backed by Tory donors, who have been funding the polling we've seen in the Telegraph recently. The news today is that they have added Will Dry – Rishi Sunak's former pollster – to their ranks. Is this plot a serious and organised threat to Rishi's premiership?

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Paul Goodman, editor of Conservative Home.

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0:15.4	Hello and welcome to coffee house shots.
0:21.2	I'm James Seal.
0:21.9	I'm joined today by Katie Bors, the political
0:23.6	members of The Spectator and Paul Goodman editor of Conservative Home. Now welcome to
0:27.7	today's episode which is going to be the plot part two, which of course refers
0:32.3	to the great NadineDory's book about the alleged shenanigans involving
0:36.0	the Conservative leadership.
0:37.4	And this week has taken a rather interesting term, Katie, with the developments about Simon
0:41.6	Clark's comments in the telegraph and the subsequent
0:44.0	fallout over the past two days. Tell us where we're at this Thursday afternoon.
0:47.6	So I think it's fair to say the Simon Clark intervention at least judged in the
0:51.5	immediate was a flop. It served to instead unite the Tory party and you can speak to MPs of all stripes, including someone the trust wing and they just don't really get it, they're more like to say to you,
1:05.4	what do you think he's thinking? It does not feel as though it is something where, you know,
1:10.8	there are many poised to go. Of course course if you look at the comments of people like
1:15.0	Miriam Kate's or the silence of some like Danny Kruger I think you can read between the
1:19.8	lines and think when it comes to who you might next say Rishi Sunec is rubbish, this group could be those.
1:26.8	But I think that was probably quite obvious from third reading, is in the sense that if you want to know who probably is the most critical of Ritchie's
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