Tory leadership race latest: who's declared?

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

As more Conservative MPs declare their intentions to run for the Tory leadership, James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Conservative peer Paul Goodman about the runners and riders. What can they learn from previous leadership elections? Who will play well with the members and the public at large? And what will the dividing lines be between the candidates?

Produced by Patrick Gibbons.

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0:27.0	welcome to Coffey House Shots. I'm James Seal and I'm joined today by The Spectators Katie Balls and Paul Goodman, Conservative Peer and Senior Fellow
0:34.7	a Policy Exchange.
0:35.7	Now Katie, we have just had the nominations formally open last night.
0:39.4	Already we've got two candidates, Tom Tugner and James Cleverly, and are expecting more in the coming days,
0:44.4	tell us more.
0:45.2	The contest has begun.
0:47.6	Is the nation excited?
0:49.2	I think that question is yet to be answered.
0:52.0	But of course, this is the first Tory leadership
0:54.8	contest in some time which is for an opposition leader not for a prime minister
0:58.2	and therefore I think that there will of course be media interest
1:02.4	particularly because labor I think
1:03.7	want to quietly get on with lots of their government plans but I think some of these
1:08.1	candidates who have seen recent contest play out would probably have to get used to the fact
1:13.4	that this is a little bit less, you know,
1:15.0	the first item on the news agenda
1:17.1	in the way I think some of the past contest were
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