Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host, Alan Tolhurst. I'm with me to mark the one-year anniversary since Boris Johnson announced he was resigning as Prime Minister, and to look at how the Conservative Party has, and sometimes hasn't, moved on from the Johnson era.

I'm delighted to say I'm joined by

two senior Tory MPs with more than 30 years of parliamentary experience between them. Former Welsh

Secretary Stephen Crabb and the ex-trade Minister Mark Garnier. And also welcoming back our political

editor, Adam Payne. So I'm going to start with you AP. It's exactly a year ago we recorded

a special emergency version of this podcast.

Arthur Johnson gave his infamous resignation speech about the herd instinct is powerful.

When the herd moves, it moves. So if you can, just try and praise you what's happened in

British politics in the past 12 months. No, I'm just joking. A year on, sort of where are we really?

I'll attempt an abbreviated version of what's happened.

So it was about a year ago today that Boris Johnson resigned after lots of ministers

to come in exactly how many.

60, we got to eventually.

60, yeah.

I unearthed actually a picture of me outside the red lion just hunched over a glass of wine

as I was on the phone to someone in Downing Street insisting that Boris was fighting on

and they couldn't wait to get cracking with his economic agenda and then I think it was the next

morning he was gone. So since then a very sort of abbreviated version, we had a Conservative Party

Leadership contest which took place last summer. Liz Trust emerged as the victor.

She was more popular at the time with the members than Rishi Sunak.

Resan, her premiership was in.

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