Could “abrasive” Kemi Badenoch ever be Prime Minister?
David Gauke joins the New Statesman podcast
November 1, 2024
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Could “abrasive” Kemi Badenoch ever be Prime Minister?
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<p>David Gauke reveals his pick for the Tory leadership “not without reservations”. </p><br /><p>As Labour deliver “hard decisions” in their first budget in 14 years, a listener asks if Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are reliving Nick Clegg’s 2011.</p><br /><p>David Gauke, who served with Nick Clegg in government, gives his take.</p><br /><p>He joins Rachel Cunliffe and Hannah Barnes on our weekly listener questions episode, in which they also discuss the Conservative leadership election and David Gauke reveals who he, reluctantly, voted for.</p><br /><p>📚 READ</p><p>Why Tory centrists are hopeless at leadership elections</p><p>https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/10/why-tory-centrists-are-hopeless-leadership-elections</p><br /><p>Would Kemi Badenoch be worth the risk for the Conservatives?</p><p>https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2024/10/would-kemi-badenoch-be-worth-the-risk-for-conservatives</p><br /><p>🙋♀️ ASK a question</p><p>We answer listener questions every Friday. Submit yours at www.newstatesman.com/youaskus</p><br /><p>📧 FREE get our daily politics email</p><p>https://morningcall.substack.com</p><br /><p>💷 SAVE Become a New Statesman subscriber:</p><p>Get access to all our reporting at newstatesman.com and receive your copy of our weekly magazine. Podcast listeners can get the first two months for just £2 at https://www.newstatesman.com/save</p><p><strong>LISTEN AD-FREE:</strong></p><p>📱<a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2022/06/newapp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Download the New Statesman app</a></p><br /><p><strong>MORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:</strong></p><p>❓ <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/podcasts/2022/10/you-ask-us" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ask a question</a> – we answer them every Friday</p><p>⏰ <a href="https://morningcall.substack.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get our daily politics newsletter</a> every morning</p><p>✍️ <a href="http://saturdayread.substack.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Enjoy the best of our writing</a> via email every Saturday</p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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