Tory leadership: what on earth just happened?

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Westminster is reeling from the shock result that James Cleverly has been knocked out of the Conservative Party leadership race, only a day after coming first in the previous round. Kemi Badenoch topped the poll, with Robert Jenrick second and only one vote behind her; Cleverly lost two votes. What on earth happened?

To try and make sense of it all, Cindy Yu is joined by Katy Balls and new Spectator editor Michael Gove. Having worked with them all, what's his assessment of the candidates?

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0:16.9	forward slash voucher. Hello and today I'm today I'm joined by the Specter's daily politics podcast. I'm Cindy U you and today I'm joined by Katie Balls and the Spectators new editor
0:34.4	Michael Gove. Michael welcome to your first coffee-house shots.
0:37.0	Thank you, Sidney. Pleasure to be here. Pleasure to be in the wonderful Spectator
0:39.9	officers and it's been quite a day in politics.
0:43.0	Absolutely, so let's start with that.
0:45.0	Quite an upset in the latest stage of the Tory leadership contest.
0:48.0	Katie, just tell us what happened.
0:50.0	The strange thing is, if you had said at the start of this contest who will the final
0:53.5	two be I think people might have said Kimmy Badenock and Robert Genrick and
0:56.8	they were seen as the two candidates on the right who were in a battle
1:00.3	against each other and that's what we have got. However if you're actually
1:05.0	following the various rounds and what was a very long contest already if you looked
1:09.2	at Tory Party conference where James cleverly had a pretty good showing and what happened yesterday
1:14.1	in the Tuesday ballot where James Clevely stormed ahead and had the most MP Backers.
1:19.5	There is a narrative forming, what I think I was also believing might be the case, but James
1:24.7	Cavley looked pretty assured for a space in the final two and the contest
1:28.8	today would have instead been between Robert Genrick and Kimmy Badenock for the final two slot.
1:34.3	What actually happened, he got the numbers up, is Clevely got 37 votes, Kimmy Badenock got 42 and Robert
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