The race to become Conservative Party leader
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The knives are out in Westminster as Conservative MPs vie to become the next leader of the party. It's the battle of the slogans: will Britain be "Ready for Rishi" or will P.M. be PM?
The Telegraph's Associate Editor for Politics, Christopher Hope, is back in the Red Lion pub and joined by cheerleaders for two of the candidates, David Davis MP and Steve Baker MP. The latter was setting out his stall to Suella Braverman who, as of this afternoon, is no longer in the running. Steve had strong opinions on what a Conservative is and whether Boris was one.
Outside of the speculation, Professor Matthew Goodwin popped by the pub armed with the latest polling data from Red Wall areas. He had some quite explosive analysis of what could happen in the coming weeks, months and years ahead of the next election.
And making his debut on the podcast, one of the earliest candidates to throw their hat in the ring for Tory leader - and then promptly pick it up again - it's Rehman Chishti MP.
Professor Matthew Goodwin's polling: https://unherd.com/2022/07/what-do-tory-voters-want/ |
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Chopper's politics. |
| 0:05.0 | The party wants a reset. |
| 0:08.0 | It wants a restart. |
| 0:09.0 | It doesn't want all the tired old establishments, |
| 0:12.0 | whether it's the Ritchie establishment or the |
| 0:13.9 | Boris establishment. |
| 0:14.9 | Hello and welcome to chopper's politics, your weekly wander through Westminster and beyond, |
| 0:21.6 | with me, Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor for Politics. |
| 0:25.4 | Well, after a week when I was somewhat worse for wear from COVID, I'm back in my spiritual |
| 0:31.2 | home in the Red Lion pub. Now as we record this there are six |
| 0:35.9 | candidates left in the Conservative leadership race but by the time this comes out |
| 0:41.9 | well there could be far fewer. |
| 0:45.0 | That's the perils of trying to record a podcast at the same time with keeping pace |
| 0:51.0 | with the machinations at the top of the Conservative Party. |
| 0:55.0 | So with us this week we have cheerleaders for two of the candidates. |
| 0:59.0 | David Davis for Penny Mordaunt, or D.D. for PM, if you like, and Steve Baker for Swella Braverman. |
| 1:08.0 | SB for SB, I suppose. |
| 1:11.0 | Plus analysis from one of the most in-tune polsters with the Red Wall, Professor Matthew |
| 1:16.9 | Goodwin. And later on I'll be talking to Raymond Chishti, a Tory MP who this week threw his hat into the ring for the Tory leadership |
| 1:26.7 | and promptly picked it up again. |
| 1:29.2 | So a busy morning in the Red Lion pub and first up just before he goes to the dentist is David |
| 1:34.7 | Davis. David Davis welcome to job as politics. Good morning. Why should |
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