"They got it wrong over Brexit, and they're getting it wrong over Boris"

Chopper's Politics

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Brexit, Political, News, Uk, Coronavirus, Politics, Parliament

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🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

And then there were two. After the longest two weeks in existence, the final candidates in the Tory leadership election have been decided - Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss.

But is it possible that some Conservatives are getting seller’s remorse with regards to their recently departed leader? Former party treasurer Lord Cruddas of Shoreditch - Peter Cruddas - joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion to make his pitch as to why he believes the members need their say on Boris Johnson.

Plus former Conservative chairman Brandon Lewis, who organised the last members vote in 2019, on his party's taste for ousting leaders, and fresh from a surprising Tory leadership race, Kemi Badenoch talks about what prompted her to run, says her future might not necessarily contain another leadership bid, and promises that she wasn't hypnotised by Michael Gove (you heard it here first).

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0:00.0	Coming up on chopper's politics.
0:05.0	They got it wrong over Brexit and they're getting it wrong over Boris.
0:09.0	And let me tell you Boris is not going away.
0:11.0	And there'll be a cloud cloud hanging over the new leader.
0:17.2	And then there were two.
0:20.1	Hello and welcome to chopper's politics. I'm Christopher Hope the Telegraph's Associate Editor for Politics
0:26.8	There's never a dull day at the Red Line pub here in Westminster. They're doing some upgrades to their stairs this morning so please forgive the banging and drilling
0:35.4	but on this podcast well we're quite used to people droning on and on
0:40.7	and that's just me. Well after what's felt like weeks and weeks of a Tory leadership
0:45.4	contest, it's been just 14 days, listeners, we are finally left with two MPs to go in front of the Tory members starting next week.
0:55.4	And on September the 5th, Ritchie Sunach or Liz Truss will be your new Prime Minister.
1:02.1	So on this week's Chopper's Politics podcast, it's all about the Tory's leadership contest.
1:08.0	As soon I can trust prepared to meet the members at the first of a dozen in-person members hustings I'll be talking
1:14.5	to the former Tory Party Chairman Brandon Lewis who organized the members
1:18.7	hustings back in 2019 three short years ago and with talk of Sellers remorse amongst Tory MPs
1:26.8	who may now be regretting dumping Boris Johnson former party treasurer Lord
1:31.9	Koddus of Shoreditch, Peter Crudice, will be telling us why
1:35.8	members deserve a say on whether Boris Johnson should carry on or not.
1:41.6	But first, there's one politician who has set the Tory party election alive with their ideas, vision and clarity of thought
1:50.0	No, not Raymond Chishti. He was on last week's podcast of course. I'm thinking of
1:56.6	course of junior minister Kemi Badenock who came forth in the Troyer leadership
2:01.0	contest with a very creditable 59 votes.
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