Rishi v Penny…v Boris? | Steve Baker, Chris Heaton-Harris, and Damian Green

Sophy Ridge On Sunday

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Politics, News, News Commentary, Government

4.2 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Liz Truss is out of Number 10 – and by next Sunday, we’ll have a completely new Prime Minister in her place. Will Rishi Sunak head back to Downing Street? Does Penny Mordaunt have a shot instead? And will Boris Johnson decide, three months after resigning, to try to get his old job back?

On this episode, Sophy is joined by our political correspondent Liz Bates and producer Scott Beasley to look over the interviews with a supporter of each of the candidates – Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker for Rishi Sunak; his boss, Chris Heaton-Harris, for Boris Johnson; and former deputy under Theresa May, Damian Green, for Penny Mordaunt.

This episode was produced by David Chipakupaku.
The editor was Paul Stanworth.

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0:40.3	So we were just about to leave when suddenly Rishi Sunak formally announced he is going to be standing to be the leader of the Conservative Party and the next Prime Minister.
0:52.3	Welcome to the Safeway Ridge on Sunday podcast.
0:57.0	Now, by Friday, number 10 will have its third occupant of the year, and it could happen a lot sooner than that, because Rishi Sunak is currently leading the pack of potential new prime ministers.
1:08.0	We'll hear from a significant new back at the Northern Ireland Minister, Steve Baker, as well. Penny Maudent, right now, is the only person at the time
1:15.9	of recording to say she's standing, but she's going to struggle, frankly, to get onto the ballot
1:20.6	with a number of supporters. She's got declared. And of course, Boris Johnson, as we all
1:25.5	know, is taking soundings about whether he stands a chance to run the country once again, just three months after he was booted out by his own MPs.
1:33.7	Does he have the numbers? We'll hear from one of his allies, Chris Heaton Harris.
1:42.2	While joining us to unpack the interviews from this week's show, our Sky News Political Correspondent, Liz Bates.
1:48.4	How you doing?
1:49.2	I'm good.
1:50.3	The last time we did the podcast together was at the Conservative Party conference, which feels like about three years ago.
1:57.2	It does feel like, in fact, I can barely remember it at this point because so much has happened in between that time, but it is very nice to be back.
2:03.5	It's good to have you as well. And we've obviously got our programme editor, Scott Beasley as well. How are you doing, Scott?
2:08.2	Hi, Sophie. Hi, Liz. Good, thanks.
2:10.9	It's been a bit of a roller coaster week for us, hasn't it, Scott? I'll be honest, I kind of feel like I'm still sort of reeling from the adrenaline. I guess this was confirmed so late on Saturday night.
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