Who's to blame for Boris's fall?
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The Spectator
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🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Also today, a new YouGov poll of Conservative members gives Liz Truss a 34-point lead ahead of Rishi Sunak. Is there enough time for him to turn the tide? How many Tory members have already made up their minds?
And finally, is GCHQ at risk of being hacked?
Cindy Yu is joined by James Forsyth and Katy Balls.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:30.0 | This is a poll of conservative members and I think the only second poll done by UGARF since |
| 0:39.1 | the beginning of the membership phase. |
| 0:41.1 | So how important is this poll? |
| 0:42.8 | Well, it definitely sets the tone and I think it helps shape the narrative. |
| 0:46.2 | So it is important. |
| 0:47.2 | I think it's fair to say that Team Trust is really happy about this poll and Team Suneak |
| 0:51.8 | less so though he speaks to anyone supporting Rishi Suneak they will say, well polls are |
| 0:57.7 | maybe we'll treat one which is better for us. |
| 1:00.4 | That's probably not what they would say but what they would end with is the fact that the |
| 1:04.0 | only poll that really matters comes to the one that's going to be announced at the beginning |
| 1:07.7 | of September when you know who wins. |
| 1:09.7 | But the issue really full of Rishi Suneak here is that we know the ballots are going out. |
| 1:15.0 | We'll get to when exactly they're going out later in the podcast and people can vote |
| 1:19.7 | before you reach the end of the campaign so it's not like a normal general election campaign. |
| 1:24.4 | You don't vote two weeks in a general election, you wait to the campaign and that does mean |
| 1:28.4 | I think you read more into these in the sense that if the figures and a lot of people |
| 1:33.6 | and I say and they're not going to change their mind now are what they seem. |
| 1:37.2 | It does look very hard for Rishi Suneak to turn the tide because even if there is a problem |
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