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Politics Unpacked

Tory Tribes Go To War

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

With Brexit bringing splits in the Conservative Party back to light, Matt Chorley speaks to the Times' Deputy Political Editor Steven Swinford about who exactly the many competing factions are, and we hear from former Deputy Chief Whip Anne Milton and former Justice Secretary David Gauke about what being on the frontline of Tory tribal warfare is really like.

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0:00.0

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1:03.0

Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast with Matt Shirley, bringing you the best of my Times radio show,

1:07.6

Monday to Thursday, 10 till 1.

1:10.0

A big week on the show this week, we've got David Cameron on the show on Thursday.

1:15.0

So if you've got any questions you'd like me to put to the former Prime Minister, I don't know, there's not much going on,

1:19.6

but if there is anything you want me to ask him, drop me an email, Matt Druelly at Times. Radio, and I will put some of the best

1:26.8

to him later in the week.

1:28.9

On today's show, we try to get to the bottom

1:32.2

of what's going on on the Tory backbenches.

1:35.0

Yes when Tory tribes go to war

1:41.0

yes when Tory tribes go to war, things are going to get very messy indeed.

1:47.0

And there are a lot of Tory tribes on the back benches, a lot more than two of them anyway.

1:52.0

From the ERG to the internationalist red

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