Which Conservative leader could be a problem for Keir Starmer?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Tory leadership contest is still rumbling on, and we're lucky enough to still have weeks to go! In this Saturday episode, we assess which of the candidates would create the biggest problem for Keir Starmer. Who would be most frustrating at the dispatch box, and whose politics would be the most difficult for him? Who might be a slightly easier opponent? Megan McElroy speaks to Katy Balls and John McTernan, political strategist and former political secretary to Tony Blair.

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0:21.0	Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.
0:25.0	I'm Megan McElroy and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and John
0:28.2	M
0:30.2	M
0:30.2	Maternan, former political secretary to Tony Blair and political strategist.
0:32.2	Katie in your column this week you've written about the Conservative leadership contest.
0:38.0	Tell us more.
0:39.0	So it's still going.
0:40.0	Still.
0:41.0	It's going for a bit longer yet, all the way to November. But I think there's an interesting
0:45.1	question which is we can go for all the candidates but how do the opposition parties look
0:49.6	at this leadership contest and who would cause them a problem if a problem at all? Now the Tories spend
0:54.6	most of the time worrying about the Reform Party. I think on the liberal democrat
0:59.0	side there is actually some be amusement at how little the contest so far has been about how do you get those
1:05.0	lived-down voters back in lots of these you know home counties you know quite
1:09.8	well-to-do areas the Galesery tests that we've heard about.
1:14.0	Well lived down is effectively just targeted areas with nice Gales Bakery and that's where
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