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Hello and welcome to coffee house shots.

I'm James Hill. I'm joined today by Katie

balls and Fraser Nelson now Katie it's been a big 24 hours in kind of Tory

world as the party tries to pick itself up after last week's defeat we have the

first Shadow Cabinet meeting and we also at the

92 Committee election for Chairman. Tell us about both. Yeah it's an

interesting time in terms of what's happening with the Tory leadership

because you effectively have lots of contenders. I think we can guess who most of them are,

and lots of Tory politicians just randomly giving interviews on broadcast, writing long op-eds,

and in some cases posing at parties. But not a single candidate

has declared saying they are definitely running for the leadership. Now, the contest

is not officially started, but you can still have someone someone say I'm going to run when it happens no one's done there and that is because I think there's a little bit of waiting to see what the format for the contest is but I think there's still, you know, a lot of raw upset when it comes to the

mood in the parliamentary party. And I think particularly the mood on the over 200 Tory MPs who lost

their seats, you know, just last week. Lots of

candidates I think spent the weekend calling round those figures. Ritchie

didn't was also calling around to, you know, one by one, those who lost their

seat to apologize rather than to position himself.

But I think much of the feedback was, don't make this about you right now.

Now is not the time to jump into what can be seen as, you know,uring therefore it's it is a delicate balancing

act for those who want to be in contention which is to put enough feelings out that

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