Who will take Nadine Dorries’s seat?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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James Heale speaks to Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls.
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| 0:23.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls |
| 0:26.8 | and Fraser Nelson. Katie I think the big development this morning has been |
| 0:30.0 | Nadine Dorries finally handing in her notice sending off the email which has been chosen which is |
| 0:34.4 | that she's now got a crown appointment as children hundreds so I mean she's going to be a |
| 0:38.1 | by-lection there in midbed for cheer. Tell us what we can expect from that. |
| 0:42.6 | So the A's will take place is October. Exact date still to be confirmed. Obviously it's |
| 0:49.6 | tricky timing for Rishi Sunag in the sense that his team hope the ultimate is time of |
| 0:55.6 | rejuvenation. Shaking things up through various things. The King's Speech, November and |
| 1:01.2 | minor reshoffle and then also party conference of course and having what is technically on paper |
| 1:09.5 | a pretty safe tour receipt majority over 25,000 if they were to lose that it would suggest |
| 1:15.6 | quite the opposite and disability recovery narrative. I think it was interesting as it |
| 1:20.0 | definitely feels speaking to MPs that is a tricky thing for Rishi Sunag. I think Nadine Dorries |
| 1:24.5 | because she is so fundamentally anti-Rishi Sunag and pro-Boris Johnson. It means the criticisms |
| 1:31.7 | in her resignation. I haven't actually really started much of a conversation with Tory MPs. They |
| 1:37.5 | more just see it as the end of Nadine Dorries whereas if it had been another MP who said Rishi |
| 1:42.0 | Sunag has no vision, Rishi Sunag has no this. Perhaps it would lead to more festering instead |
| 1:47.2 | it would just make this you know bruising chapter of super loyal Boris figures and when it comes |
| 1:53.6 | to the bilaction I think what's interesting is clearly it's going to be difficult for the Tory |
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