What is the future of the Tory party?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
A tale of two thinktanks - you lucky things.
Jon has spent the day at the Tony Blair Institute and Emily has been with the Popular Conservatives (PopCons), Liz Truss' former parish.
After the worst result in their history, how does the Conservative party rebuild?
And what lessons are those on the right of the party taking away from Thursday night's defeat? Lewis talks to former party treasurer and donor, Lord Michael Spencer, about the direction for the party now.
Later, crunch time for Joe Biden - will his own party really seek to remove him before the week is done?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | That culture, what do I mean by that culture? |
| 0:15.9 | It's a culture that's contained in our customs, in our religion, in our traditions, in our common law, |
| 0:22.4 | in our architecture, in our music, in our arts, in our educational institutions, in our |
| 0:27.5 | sporting traditions and in our constitution. These timeless virtues that have made our country great |
| 0:34.2 | over the centuries, but of which we are not ashamed. Being British, being patriotic, |
| 0:40.8 | loving our country, admiring and revering the spirit of the great British people is something |
| 0:45.9 | that we should unashamedly occupy. And for too long, we've been nervous, we've been reticent, |
| 0:53.8 | we've been shy about demonstrating that love of our country. |
| 0:59.4 | That is the sound of the Conservative Party, licking its wounds, picking itself up off the floor, trying to work out what comes after that calamitous defeat. |
| 1:11.7 | This is Popcon, a much reduced gathering of popular conservatism in the centre of London this morning. |
| 1:19.6 | And that is, of course, the voice of the former Home Secretary Soella Braverman, |
| 1:23.2 | who has in effect fired the starting gun of the Conservative Party leadership campaign with a |
| 1:29.3 | vitriolic attack on the pride flag and the fact that it was flown from the Home Office while |
| 1:34.8 | she was Home Secretary. Is this really the future of the Conservative Party? Welcome to the |
| 1:40.4 | Newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 1:45.3 | The news agents. |
| 1:46.6 | It's Emily. |
| 1:47.2 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:50.2 | And we have lost John to the Tony Blair Institute, |
| 1:53.6 | where he is currently interviewing our new health secretary. |
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