Why are so many Conservative MPs standing down? With Charlotte Ivers
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🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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As the Conservative Party deadline approaches for MPs to say whether they want to run in the next election, many young Tory MPs have already announced that they’ve had enough, including the Bishop Auckland MP Dehanna Davison. Charlotte Ivers, the Times Radio presenter and columnist for the New Statesman and Sunday Times, joins Rachel Cunliffe to talk about why this is, and how Rishi Sunak’s first month in office has gone. They also talk about whether Matt Hancock’s third place in I’m a Celebrity has done him more good than harm.
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| 1:10.5 | today's New Statesman podcast, I'm talking to political correspondent for Times Radio, |
| 1:15.1 | Charlotte Ivers, who also has a column in the Sunday Times and, of course, in the New Statesman, |
| 1:19.6 | and we are assessing Richie Sunax's first month in office, and whether Matt Hancock has done |
| 1:24.9 | enough to rehabilitate himself. Hi, Charlotte. Thank you so much for joining us. So we're a month |
| 1:38.0 | and a weekend into Richie Sunax being Prime Minister. It does feel like it was another era, |
| 1:45.6 | the Liz Trust Chaos. Take us through what's happened since then. What has some highlights been for you? |
| 1:50.5 | Well, it's been a pretty active month for Richie Sunax. Let's start with his awesome statement, |
| 1:55.3 | because I think that was always going to be the big crunch point, wasn't it? If he couldn't get |
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