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Coffee House Shots

Why is Theresa May standing down?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Theresa May has announced that she will not seek re-election this year. The former prime minister said that launching her global commission on modern slavery and human trafficking meant she would not be able to spend as much time as she would like on constituency matters.

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Isabel Hardman about the news.

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0:00.0

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0:15.6

Hello and welcome to coffee house shots.

0:21.3

I'm James Heel.

0:22.0

I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and Isabel Hardman.

0:25.0

Now Katie, I think the big news this morning was the 6 a.m. announcement to the local newspaper of Theresa May that she is going to be stepping down come the election.

0:33.0

I think the 60th Tory MP to do so.

0:35.0

Talk us through this news.

0:36.7

Yes, so I think it's a trend when you think about some of the Tory big beasts of recent years. a lot of him are planning to step down, you know,

0:46.0

different governments and so forth. You have David Cameron technically back of course has appeared,

0:49.7

but generally, whether it's Sajja Jabbard standing down, you have obviously Quasiquatang, who briefly was a was Chancellor,

0:57.0

but before he was in the Cabinet a long time.

0:59.0

And then there's all these questions about Jeremy Hunt, but of course he insists he is fighting on.

1:03.6

But it feels as though lots of the figures who spent a long time in Cabinet and former leaders

1:08.3

are now looking at the state of things.

1:11.2

And there's almost that end of an era feel. Theresa May I think

1:14.3

and that's in her local paper, Maidenhead, which she's been praised for,

1:18.4

rather than going you know for the big headlines, of course it is being followed

1:21.6

by everyone so you get them anyway and she said you

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