Tory leadership election: who's running?
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🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
At the time of recording, 11 Conservative MPs had launched official bids to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister. Anoosh Chakelian, Freddie Hayward and Ben Walker discuss the candidates' prospects, promises and pitfalls – as well as how the leadership election could reshape the Conservative Party.
Then in You Ask Us, a listener asks which Tory candidate would pose the biggest threat to the Labour Party.
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| 0:30.7 | Hi, I'm Anouche. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm Freddie and I'm Bern. |
| 0:33.8 | And on today's episode of the New Statesman Podcast, |
| 0:36.1 | we discuss how the Tory leadership race is playing out |
| 0:38.7 | and then you ask us which candidate |
| 0:40.7 | would be the biggest threat to Labour? |
| 0:47.5 | So we're recording on Monday morning |
| 0:49.4 | after a weekend of many a telegraph-based leadership pitch. |
| 0:54.4 | I've counted 11 Tory MPs have so far declared |
| 0:57.2 | that they are running, |
| 0:58.6 | although that could change in the course of our recording |
| 1:01.3 | or in the course of the day, |
| 1:03.2 | between our recording and our listeners listening. |
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