Who was the winner from today’s Tory leadership speeches?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Isabel Hardman.
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| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House shots. I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by |
| 0:26.2 | Katie Paul's and Isabel Harman in Birmingham on the last day at the Conservative Conference. |
| 0:30.3 | Now I've just heard from speeches from all four Tory candidates. Katie what was your |
| 0:34.8 | initial reaction to hearing those 20 minute speeches from each of them? |
| 0:37.6 | So obviously the question of this conference has been who is going to be David Cameron |
| 0:41.4 | that will be studying David Cameron's 2005 speech where of course I think |
| 0:46.2 | just bad to say there was a bit of momentum building behind David Cameron before he |
| 0:49.5 | took to the stage but it was seen as the speech that sealed the deal for him, put David Davis back in his place, |
| 0:56.8 | and the rest is history. |
| 0:58.1 | So could you have one of the four candidates today use what were meant to be 20-minute |
| 1:02.4 | features to do that. |
| 1:04.0 | The first thing is the 20 minute rule, despite all the fighting behind the scene saying |
| 1:08.9 | it can't be 10 minutes, it can't be 40 minutes. |
| 1:11.8 | No one really paid any attention to the time limit. I think we had two definitely |
| 1:15.8 | in James Clavady and Robert Genrick who just spoke for as long as they wanted to, I think |
| 1:20.2 | about half an hour each, which means we're, you know, recalibrating our travel plans, |
| 1:24.8 | not to make it about us. But I think, you know, was there a game-changing moment? We always talk about |
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