Who would want Rishi Sunak's job now?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Are any Tories desperate enough to take over as Prime Minister?
In our listener questions episode, You Ask Us, Rachel Cunliffe, George Eaton and Freddie Hayward answer your questions on whether any Conservative MPs would really want to take over as PM before the next election, and how on earth they will explain Britain's failing economy during the election campaign.
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| 0:30.1 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:33.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Rachel Kunliff, |
| 0:40.0 | associate political editor at the New Statesman, and joining me in the studio, |
| 0:43.7 | I have our political correspondent Freddie Hayward and our senior editor George Eaton. |
| 0:49.7 | This is an episode we like to call You Ask Us. We've been digging around in our virtual mail bag and have brought a couple of your questions to discuss. |
| 1:09.0 | That's a russle. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay George, kick us off. |
| 1:12.0 | But you ask us debut, what have you brought from the virtual mail bag? |
| 1:15.2 | So I have a question from a YouTube listener Jimmy Tommy Jojo and they've asked all this |
| 1:21.9 | talk of a toy leadership change to change their fortunes is a waste of breath. |
| 1:26.0 | Provide one good reason why a future toy leader would want to take over the party, only to lead the party to the biggest defeat in history in five months. |
| 1:35.0 | months? Maybe if they wait till mid-January to do it. I mean my think is I can |
| 1:42.3 | immediately think of plenty of reasons |
| 1:43.6 | why someone would want to become PM. It's very interesting job to have. It guarantees |
| 1:48.8 | you a fairly lucrative post number 10 career, look at the profile and money Liz Trust is making. |
| 1:56.3 | And also there's just the chance that you might actually be able to do better, given the Conservatives |
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