WTF just happened in the Tory race?!
The News Agents
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
It's very rare you see the News Agents speechless. But today is one of those rare moments. James Cleverly, Tory MPs favourite as of yesterday has just been knocked out of the leaders race by Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick.
You can hear from our voices, that we spend the entire episode trying to work out what on earth has happened. Did Team Cleverly's maths go wrong?
Did MPs have a sudden change of heart over the direction of the party? And what does it mean for what happens to the Tory party now? One man who's probably breathing his first sigh of relief for a month is Keir Starmer.
Later, Rachel Reeves' budgetary gymnastics, and our campaign to 'help Jim get a jingle'.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | As chairman of the 1920s committee and returning officer in the leadership contest, |
| 0:18.4 | I can now give you the results of the fourth and final parliamentary ballot, |
| 0:23.6 | which is good news for all of us in my respect. |
| 0:26.6 | So 120 MPs voted, and I can report the numbers of votes for each candidate as follows. |
| 0:35.8 | Kemi Bajnock, 42 votes. |
| 0:40.2 | James Cleverly, 37 votes. |
| 0:43.8 | And Robert Jenrick, 41 votes. |
| 0:48.6 | So as a result of that ballot, |
| 0:52.1 | James Cleverly is eliminated in the contest, and Kebby Badenock and Robert |
| 0:57.2 | Jenrick now go forward to the ballot of members. Thank you very much for your attendance. |
| 1:03.5 | Well, the result has just been announced and it is pretty astonishing given what we heard |
| 1:10.6 | yesterday. It is now a fight off between |
| 1:14.1 | Kemi Bajnock, who came top of the poll, and Robert Jenrick, who came second, and James |
| 1:20.6 | Cleverly, who came in top yesterday, has come in third today. It's no wonder some people call the Conservative Party at Westminster |
| 1:31.8 | the most duplicitous electorate in the world. I think they like to say the most sophisticated |
| 1:37.4 | electorate in the world, but I think yours is more on the money. This is a remarkable result, |
| 1:47.6 | which with all of the twists and turns, |
| 1:54.4 | which have led us to this point, despite the fact that she seemed at Conservative Party conference to be losing momentum by the minute. The net result of this with the most MPs in support is that Kemi Badenock |
| 2:03.5 | goes into this contest as the presumed frontrunner to be the next leader of the Conservative Party. |
| 2:10.1 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
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