Guys, after what feels like an eternity, it's less than 144 hours until the election

results start pouring in.

Funly enough, we're anticipating less than 144 seats for the Conservative Party too.

I'm Nishkamar and I'm Coco Khan and on this special episode of Podsay of the UK

we're checking in with one of the most famous former Tories Rory Stewart

to explore the future of the Conservative Party and the future of British democracy. The Conservative Party is tearing itself apart, polling is in the toilet, the

Gamblegate betting scandal has cost them two candidates in safe seats and it's

cost them far more in terms of their national image and all eyes are on

Rishi Sunak as the post-mortem recriminations begin.

But of course the failure of this government doesn't rest solely at the feet of

Sunak. I'm sure we have not yet forgotten the 2019 election and that architect of disaster, Boris Johnson.

I think the most telling thing about the last 14 years of Conservative rule is how little of its achievements Rishi Sunak is able to trumpet.

You know the stagnation of the economy, the way that Brexit has been handled and then

you get into the kind of you know absolute shit show of Johnson's time as Prime Minister and then you and then on top of

that I think a point where I thought it was not possible for trust in the

Conservative Party to plummet any further Liz trust kind of Oppenheim as the economy and now we're in a position where essentially

Rishi Sunak is sort of trying to argue that the public should vote for him based on the things that he's done in the last two years

and disregard the previous 12 years of Conservative rule. It's hard to know where the rot starts, but we're definitely in a situation that the

Conservative Party has alienated so many different sections of this country

including bits of the country that I never thought that they were

alien.

Bits of middle England, bits of the former Tory stronghold that's known as the Blue Wall, even

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