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Coffee House Shots

What‘s behind the Tory exodus?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

It's day four of the election campaign, and Michael Gove has joined the growing Tory exodus and announced he's standing down at the election. What's behind his decision, and how will it affect Rishi Sunak?

Megan McElroy speaks to Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls.

Produced by Megan McElroy.

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Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shorts, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

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I'm Megan McElroy and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and Fraser Nelson.

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It's day four of the election campaign and Rishi Sunak hasn't scheduled anything for today.

0:33.2

Fraser, how does this look and how's the campaign going?

0:36.3

Well the campaign isn't going particularly well.

0:39.0

It seems to have been a blunder a day since it was announced on Wednesday. Then we had the drownfall performance

0:45.0

where he got soaked and his words were drowned out too by the Labor theme tune. Then we had a trip to Wales

0:51.2

where he asked the Welsh if they're looking forward to the football, Wales hasn't qualified for the euros, then Northern Ireland where he was asked why I was giving a speech next to the place where the Titanic was built.

1:02.0

So now perhaps they always planned day

1:04.8

four to be a day of rest, but we're in the context now where even small things are

1:10.3

seen to be disaster. A narrative of comic capers has set in. I think it's right

1:16.7

now following one of Andrew Neil's laws of politics that when you're on the skids, you keep

1:21.4

on skidding. So he might be saying things are very profound he

1:25.9

might be making very good points but the press pack is on the look now for

1:29.6

the smallest disaster if he's standing on an airplane with the word exit behind him

1:34.0

is portrayed as being a big gaff because he's next to a sign saying exit things that

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