Who’s winning the Tory leadership race?

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

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This evening one of the remaining five candidates to be the next prime minister will be eliminated in a vote of MPs. Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Rachel Cunliffe, Ben Walker and Rachel Wearmouth, our new deputy political editor, to discuss who came out of the two debates over the weekend best and why Labour has enjoyed watching the candidates tear strips out of each other on live TV.

Then, in You Ask Us, they answer a listener’s question on what Boris Johnson might do next.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Enouche, I'm Rachel, and I'm also Rachel, and I'm just Ben.
0:05.7	And on today's episode of the New Statesman podcast, we look at the Tory leadership contest
0:10.7	and the debates, and you ask us what will Boris Johnson do next?
0:21.4	So we're speaking the Monday morning after the second Tory leadership debate, the candidates
0:26.2	left in the race, Rishi Sunak, Penny Morden, Liz Truss, Kemi Badenock, and Tom Tuggenhardt.
0:32.0	And it was such a snipy little blue and blue on blue, rather, affair that actually we just
0:37.3	had the news just coming in as we're sitting in the studio that Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss
0:41.1	don't want to go ahead with the third one that was scheduled.
0:44.1	So we'll talk a bit about that and also how the debate played out.
0:47.4	But first of all, I want to introduce our new podcaster, well, our new deputy political
0:52.0	editor, but we are going to get you in the studio quite a lot, Rachel Weermouth.
0:54.9	Hello.
0:55.9	You've joined us from the mirror?
0:57.2	That's right.
0:58.2	It must have been a crazy time for you recently.
1:00.0	I hope you got a break.
1:01.6	I've had a week's break in between jobs, but yeah, good.
1:05.5	But I bet you haven't managed to tell yourself away from what's been going on.
1:08.6	Yeah, the first week I take off in Monson, there you go, Boris Johnson resigns, and we
1:12.0	have a full-blown Tory leadership contest.
1:14.3	So yeah.
1:15.3	Holiday.
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