What Comes After Sunak?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak has made his first party conference speech as leader, but polls suggest it could be his last; so who comes next? JL Partners' Scarlett Maguire and Sam Lister from the Daily Express look at the frontrunners in the next Tory leadership race.

Plus: Matt catches cabinet ministers Mel Stride and Michael Gove on their way out of the conference hall for their take on the Prime Minister's speech.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast. I'm Matt Chauley,
0:06.7	bringing the rest of my time's video show.
0:08.9	You can listen live, Monday to Friday, 10 till 1.
0:11.2	I'm at the Concertor Party conference in Manchester,
0:13.1	although they are now slightly dismantling it all around me.
0:16.5	Rishi Sudak's done his big speech.
0:18.2	And so I am ending this long running saga.
0:22.6	I am canceling the rest of the HS2 project.
0:26.5	And in its place, we will reinvest every single penny.
0:33.9	36 billion pounds in hundreds of new transport projects
0:39.6	in the North and the Midlands across the country.
0:42.6	This means 36 billion pounds of investment in the projects
0:46.6	that will make a real difference across our nation.
0:49.4	I have a chat about that in just a moment.
0:51.0	Then, is it enough to save his skin if it isn't?
0:55.6	It might be his last, as well as his first speech
0:58.4	to the party conference as leader,
1:00.2	depending on when the election is next year.
1:02.9	So we take a look at the Shadow Leadership Race,
1:05.8	which already appears to be up and running.
1:08.2	But first, a big, big moment for Rishi Sudak
1:11.1	is all of this enough to change the course of politics,
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