Will Penny Mordaunt be the next prime minister?

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

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Over the weekend, speculation about a plot to oust Rishi Sunak and replace him with Penny Mordaunt circulated the papers. It came after one of the worst weeks of the Prime Minister’s premiership and the looming May elections. This morning, key Cabinet ministers including Kemi Badenoch and Ben Wallace have come out in support of ’sticking to the plan’. Can Rishi Sunak keep the party calm ahead of a gruelling month? And what's the strategy behind opting for an autumn election? Cindy Yu speaks to Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson.

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0:27.0	Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.
0:29.0	I'm Cindy U and I'm joined by Katie Balls and Fraser Niesen.
0:32.0	So over the weekend talk off a leadership... and I'm joined by Katie Balls and Fraser Nieson.
0:32.8	So over the weekend talk of a leadership challenge to Rhesonak reignited
0:36.9	as it seems like the rebels have a new queen to crown.
0:40.5	Or Katie do they? Tell us about this news news so this is the penny plot so as we
0:47.0	discussed on the podcast it was pretty bad week for Ritchie Scenic last week and I
0:51.7	think we said get ready for weekends of
0:54.8	leadership speculation right on cue Friday night the daily mail around a story about
0:58.7	how the writer the party are willing to get behind Penny Mordin, currently the leader of the house.
1:04.0	I have a people conclave as well, they were saying.
1:07.0	That was actually the Day Free, that was the Sunday story they got to that bit, and also
1:10.6	through a conclave, that is also not even an original idea for not just because of what happens in Vatican City,
1:18.0	but because if you go back to effectively what the last time they talked about changing leader.
1:25.0	Michael Gov was talking about this as a way of doing it quickly.
1:28.0	So clearly some excited MPs are recycling a Govi idea there.
1:32.0	But they were talking about, but the penny idea was not even
1:34.8	doing that it was instead just getting behind her having a coronation you don't
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