Tory Race Becomes Hilarious Farce
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 18 July 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The race to become Tory leader has become an eccentric mess. Just how bad are the candidates - and what do their campaigns tell us about where this country is headed?
We're joined by Byline Times' political editor Adam Bienkov.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the show. If you're wondering why I'm looking you can |
| 0:11.2 | get you a normal, there's a heat wave. I'm from Stockport. I'm not built for this weather. |
| 0:15.7 | So that's why I'm just can't really glad. I may just melt midway through this. It's |
| 0:21.7 | not going to be dignified. But we'll get through this. It's in, we don't have any air conditioning, |
| 0:26.6 | so we need must. So today we have a very special show all about the Tory leadership |
| 0:36.9 | fast, which I think is a generous way of putting it. So I was asked by the Guardian this week to |
| 0:45.8 | ask which Tory I prefer to become to become leader our next Prime Minister. And I was torn with |
| 0:53.3 | a lot of the other columnists did their job and they just actually just came up with an answer. |
| 0:56.7 | I felt it was like choosing between back team and infections. Each with different symptoms, |
| 1:02.6 | which are bad. So like they specialize in a bad symptom, some certain bad symptoms that you |
| 1:07.7 | just don't want to get. And I didn't, I didn't really want to choose. But I was torn between |
| 1:13.0 | G1 one who destroys the conservative high. That'd be quite cool. But the downside is what if they |
| 1:21.1 | also inflict a terrible harm on the country in the meantime. And I think Liz Truss really embodies |
| 1:26.6 | that. Liz Truss, absolute comedy gold, let's be honest with you, she really is, she gives a lot, |
| 1:34.3 | she gives a lot to the country I would say. I mean, she's had, I mean, the famous obviously for |
| 1:41.7 | me, my mid sometimes mid afternoon sort of, if I need a bit of a lift, I will watch her talking |
| 1:49.0 | about port markets and the disgrace that is the importing of cheese. Let's have a little |
| 1:54.3 | look at her campaign launch. Thank you. Thank you everybody for the questions. |
| 2:03.0 | So Liz Truss, current foreign secretary who came third in the first round of voting to become |
| 2:10.3 | the new conservative party leader and prime minister, that first round of voting happening |
| 2:14.5 | yesterday formally, she got lost, she didn't know the way out, didn't know the way out of the room. |
| 2:21.4 | I would say actually to be fair to her, but not really, but her age should have told her how to get |
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