The Week in 60 Minutes: Truss leads Sunak & Trump's return
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🗓️ 24 July 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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On the rest of the show, The Spectator’s deputy editor Freddy Gray and National Interest editor Jacob Heilbrunn talk about whether Trump will run for the US presidency again. Spectator editor Fraser Nelson asks whether Rishi Sunak’s background is really so different from Liz Truss’s. Our Wild Life columnist Aidan Hartley explains why country music is so popular in Africa.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Week in 60 Minutes. I'm John Connolly, Spectator's News Editor. |
| 0:16.6 | After Penny Morden was knocked out of the Tory leadership race this week, one of Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss will be the next Prime Minister. |
| 0:23.4 | Andrew Neal, James Forsyth and Katie Balls will join me to give us the latest in the Tory leadership race. |
| 0:28.3 | The Tory leadership race has defied expectations. |
| 0:31.7 | Early in the week, one of the contenders, Liz Truss, attacked her competitor Rishi Sunak over his private education. |
| 0:37.2 | Is there a shifting class happening in |
| 0:38.5 | the Tory party? I'll speak to Fraser Nelson. Freddie Gray writes in this week's cover piece that |
| 0:44.5 | Trump is back and is gearing up to run in 2024. But are we ready? He'll be on with Jacob Halbrun. |
| 0:50.5 | And finally, why is country and western music so popular in Africa? I'll speak to Aidan Hartley. |
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| 1:18.6 | Five leadership hopefuls are whittled down to two this week. |
| 1:21.0 | Rishi Sunak and List Trust will now face six weeks of leadership hustings, where they'll |
| 1:24.9 | look to win over Tory members to become party leader and prime minister. |
| 1:28.3 | Which of the two candidates has a better chance? |
| 1:31.3 | And will the Conservatives be able to come back together afterwards? |
| 1:34.3 | I'm joined now by Andrew Neal, Spectator's Chairman, James Forsyth, our political editor, and Katie Balls, our Deputy Political Editor. |
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