Who wins? Tories and Reform battle it out in fight for the Right
The Daily T
The Telegraph
4.1 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
It’s a Rightie-off! Two heavyweights are in The Daily T studio to battle it out for the soul of British Right – and help you decide who to vote for.
Conservative chairman Kevin Hollinrake goes head to head with Tim Montgomerie, journalist and head of Reform’s Christian Fellowship, over their parties’ leaders, records in office, and solutions to Britain’s biggest problems.
The two heavyweights also weigh in on whether they would support a Tory-Reform coalition, and the answer might surprise you…
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:07.0 | Fight! It's Conservative versus Reform and we have two heavyweights from the party to duke it out over who you should vote for. |
| 0:18.0 | Conservative Party Chairman Kevin Hollingrake versus Tim Montgomery, |
| 0:22.1 | wants a Tory now a massive Nigel Farage fan. |
| 0:25.0 | You won't want to miss it. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:28.5 | And me, Camilla Tominy. |
| 0:45.7 | Tim, before we invite reform and the Tories in to duke it out, I've got a little Presby for you. |
| 0:46.6 | Oh, have you? |
| 0:47.5 | Yes. |
| 0:47.9 | Oh, this is genuinely unexpected. |
| 0:50.9 | Look. |
| 0:51.5 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:53.4 | Oh, how embarrassing. I haven't got anything for you. First of Oh, thank you. Oh, how embarrassing. |
| 0:55.6 | I haven't got anything for you. |
| 0:57.0 | First of all, we revealed yesterday you hadn't sent me a Christmas card. |
| 1:00.6 | You know my season's greetings are implied. |
| 1:03.0 | I know they are. |
| 1:04.3 | I'm hoping that my Christmas present will be that you pray for me in general over the course of Christmas. |
| 1:09.0 | I will. |
| 1:09.4 | I will certainly think of you while I'm abroad. |
| 1:12.7 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, these are wonderful. |
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