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Who do you suggest I should be enthused by?

Now, Robert Jenric, perhaps, can be Badenov or Pritchie Patel or Suella Braverman?

I mean, who's going to enthuse me?

That's Chris Patton, the former Conservative Party chairman.

Work for Thatcher, work for Major. He's seen his party through a lot.

And those are his thoughts on the current crop of people who might be about to lead it. Today we heard Suella wouldn't actually be one of them.

So today we're going to go through the runners and riders

and try and work out if any of them enthused the rest of their party,

would be voters, if any of them are a threat to labour or even electable. Welcome to the news

agents. The newsagents. It's Emily, and it is less than a month since the general election.

It may feel an awful lot longer, but it hasn't even been one month.

Tomorrow, we are going to go and interview the Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

So for that reason, we are not covering her speech this afternoon on today's episode.

Because by the time you're listening to this, the nominations will have closed for the contest to be the next leader of

the Conservatives. We know what that list looks like. Six MPs have declared their interest

to lead the party and here are the voices of the ones who've said it to us out loud.

We've substantially lost the trust of the British people and we've lost our reputation

for competence.

We need to unite, bring discipline, structure and focus so that we are ready to campaign as a party.

Frankly, we failed over the last few years.

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