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Welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman. A week after Britain backed Brexit, politics shows no sign of slowing down.

Following David Cameron's decision to resign, the race to be the next Tory leader is now on.

In his piece in The Spectator this week, James Forsythe says the Tory party is in a deeply emotional state.

But he goes on to argue that the leadership candidates who have emerged seem strangely united in their vision for post-Brexit Britain.

So can a new leader help the Conservatives put themselves back together again?

And who will come out on top in the fight for number 10? I'm joined now by James Forsyth and

Spectator editor Fraser Nelson. So James, given all the anger and turmoil of the past few days,

Michael Gove turning on Boris at the very last minute, how can you say that the Tory party

and the leadership contenders seem united?

Well, there's a minute.

The Tory Party is in an emotional tumult.

I think it is in toxic shock from the sheer amount of poison that has been injected into

its system by both the EU referendum and the subsequent leadership contest.

But I think if you look below the surface, what is interesting is everyone is basically

making the same argument, which is the challenge for the Tory party now is how to boost social

mobility and how to make capitalism work for everyone. They're all concerned about the gap

between the rich and the poor, not a traditional Tory theme. They're all concerned for capitalism

and the free market isn't working for enough people in

Britain at the moment.

So I think even though there's huge stylistic differences between the candidates, their

messages are remarkably similar.

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