Could the Conservatives claw back into the election race?
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Tory grandee Sir Robert Syms makes a startling prediction to Christopher Hope in the Red Lion this week - he thinks his party can win the next election. The MP for Poole Symes thinks that people's political views are not as fixed as they used to be, and once the ship has steadied, Sunak can give the party a vision to inspire voters.
Also on the podcast, Baroness Anne Jenkin explains the impact that smartphones are having on young people's perceptions of sex: "they have porn in their pockets and we don't know what the consequences of are going to be of this in future".
Plus Pam Moorhouse and Gerard Dughill give Chopper their pitch for a return to historic British counties.
Online porn is warping an entire generation, by Baroness Anne Jenkin
A century of the most powerful club in Parliament, by Christopher Hope
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Chopper's politics. |
| 0:05.0 | What happened in 1974? |
| 0:07.0 | What was the exact process? |
| 0:09.0 | That was 50 years ago next year, Gerard. |
| 0:11.0 | Yeah, well, you've got to move on from that. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to the Red Line pub in Westminster and Chopper's Politics Podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Christopher Hope, the Associate editor for politics at the Telegraph. |
| 0:25.0 | This weekend Ritchie Sunak is putting the finishing touches to his plans to stop the small boat crossings from France into southern England, delivering he hopes on |
| 0:35.9 | another of his five pledges that aim to show his government can get things done. |
| 0:41.1 | And behind the scenes scenes and very quietly, Tory MPs are whispering that |
| 0:46.8 | they can see now how their party can win the next general election. This is not crazy talk, but serious talk from serious people. |
| 0:56.0 | And this week we'll talk to one of those Tory MPs. |
| 0:59.0 | And in the House of Lords, peers are growing increasingly concerned about sex education in schools. |
| 1:05.0 | We'll have leading women's rights campaigner Baroness Jenkin of Kennington on the podcast to discuss that. |
| 1:11.0 | And we will finish off with an interview with a group of |
| 1:13.8 | campaigners who want to bring back our historic counties and why not. But first |
| 1:19.3 | Labour's poll leaders forum from 27 points last October at the height of the Tory crisis |
| 1:24.8 | to as little as 12 points now and Tories are getting increasingly optimistic about |
| 1:30.0 | their election chances. One of those is Sir Robert Sims. For me the very |
| 1:35.2 | definition of a Tory Grandee. He joins me now in the Red Line pub. Sir Robert |
| 1:40.5 | Sims, Tory MP for Poole. welcome to Choppers Politics Podcast. |
| 1:43.6 | Great to have you on. |
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