Who are the 'five families' of the Tory right? | You Ask Us
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A listener writes in to ask what the real threat is from the right of the Tory party, and our associate political editor, Rachel Cunliffe, breaks this down - starting with identifying who the different factions of the Tory right are, and what they want.
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| 1:00.0 | I'm Rachel. |
| 1:01.0 | And I'm Freddie. |
| 1:02.0 | And welcome to the new statesman podcast this is an episode we like to call you ask us. Hello I'm Anushikelian, Britain Editor at the New Statesman and host of this |
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| 1:18.0 | And joining me in the studio, I have Rachel Kunleff, our associate political editor, and |
| 1:21.9 | Freddie Haywood a political correspondent. |
| 1:24.7 | And we've been digging around in our virtual mailbag of questions, and you've each brought a couple |
| 1:28.8 | of questions to discuss, as usual. Rachel, which question have you picked? |
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