What now for the Tories?
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The infighting has already begun as party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch called one of Rishi Sunak’s private secretaries a ‘buffoon’ at a shadow cabinet meeting following their electoral disaster. And with Nigel Farage’s Reform party splitting the Tory vote, how will they deal with his threat?
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:30.0 | Ah she's brilliant miss I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:36.0 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her |
| 0:39.8 | oversized tent, Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:43.2 | All right. |
| 0:44.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:46.9 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:49.5 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:52.8 | All aboard, Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. |
| 0:55.6 | Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us. |
| 0:58.0 | P and O'ferries, there is another way. |
| 1:00.1 | From The Times and Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones. In Westminster, the overflowing benches of Labour MPs are getting used to hearing this. |
| 1:18.8 | I know call the Prime Minister, Sir Kiustama. Here! |
| 1:24.4 | But the Slimer Band of Conservatives |
| 1:27.6 | won't be hearing this introduction for long. |
| 1:29.8 | I know called the leader of the opposition. |
| 1:32.0 | Rishisholy-sounek is only holding the thought. |
| 1:38.0 | He will be stepping down at some point, |
| 1:41.0 | triggering that near annual tradition now a conservative leadership contest. |
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