Who are the “Evil Plotters” trying to destroy Rishi Sunak?
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Last weekend the Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch made clear - in her trademark no nonsense style - that she wished all those trying to plot against and undermine Rishi Sunak would shut up and go away.
In unrelated news, the Guardian revealed last night she's part of a Whatsapp group called.... The Evil Plotters. Are the rumblings of Prime Ministerial removal getting louder? Is policy being dictated by those he fears? And what to make of the IMF warning his chancellor NOT to cut taxes at the next election because our public services can;t afford it?
Later, we look at the power sharing deal in Northern Ireland - could this be Rishi's legacy?
And we ask whether Laurence Fox, who lost his libel case at the High Court, can or cannot be called 'a racist'.
We approached Mr Fox for comment and he had nothing to add.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | They need to stop messing around. They need to stop messing around and get behind the leader. |
| 0:15.9 | The fact of the matter is most people in the country are not interested in all of this Westminster Tittle Tittle Tattle. |
| 0:21.6 | And quite frankly, the people who keep putting my name in there are not my friends. |
| 0:24.6 | That was Kimmy Badenock on Sunday on Sky News. |
| 0:28.6 | She is the Conservative Business Secretary. |
| 0:31.6 | And whilst those people are not her friends, she appears to be in a WhatsApp group with exactly those people. |
| 0:40.4 | It has just been revealed by Pippa Kure at The Guardian that there is a group called, |
| 0:45.9 | wait for it, evil plotters on WhatsApp. And your guess is as good as ours as to whether |
| 0:52.2 | they're talking about housing policy or environmental issues or maybe tea room. |
| 0:59.8 | Or maybe how to get rid of Rishy Sunak. |
| 1:03.5 | So while she says get behind him and shut up, |
| 1:07.1 | a bit problematic that she's a member of this particular WhatsApp group. |
| 1:11.9 | And they're obviously all committed to cutting taxes and dealing with immigration. |
| 1:16.6 | The problem is that in Washington, not part of the evil plotters, |
| 1:21.1 | the IMF has just come out and said, |
| 1:22.8 | you can't cut taxes right now in the UK. |
| 1:25.6 | The economy isn't strong enough. Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:33.2 | The news agents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. And it must have sounded so great when |
| 1:38.0 | Kemi Badernock did the tours of the TV studios on Sunday and, you know, firmly, squarely, |
| 1:46.6 | forcefully said, you've all got to get behind Rishi. And then you can imagine when Pippa Krua from The Guardian found out, oh no, |
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