The Tory Leadership Election (finally) Begins: What Next? — Transcript

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1. 0:00this video is brought to you by
2. 0:02brilliant the general election is over
3. 0:04Parliament has MPS again the government
4. 0:07is formed for many parties their next
5. 0:09job is to figure out exactly how they
6. 0:11want to operate in Parliament who should
7. 0:13be in what position within the party
8. 0:15which causes they want to Champion and
9. 0:17exactly how they want to influence the
10. 0:19government for the conservatives though
11. 0:21they have an even more immediate concern
12. 0:24who will lead them through this period
13. 0:25of opposition so in this video we're
14. 0:27going to have a look at exactly how the
15. 0:29Tories set to choose their leader the
16. 0:31key dates and who appears to be in the
17. 0:34best position to actually win
18. 0:36[Music]
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23. 0:49now being in opposition is no easy task
24. 0:52especially if you've just come from
25. 0:53governing unlike the Prime Minister the
26. 0:55leader of the opposition gets very
27. 0:57little media attention they're not
28. 0:59taking as serious on policy matters and
29. 1:01their actions are usually summed up by
30. 1:03the press as simply opposing the
31. 1:05government for opposition's sake or for
32. 1:07simply agreeing with the government
33. 1:09adapting to the lack of power and the
34. 1:11lack of attention can be tough and can
35. 1:14make some parties impatient for another
36. 1:16election and often a new leader in the
37. 1:19case of the Tories there were some
38. 1:21arguments that a shorter leadership
39. 1:22election would be preferable part of
40. 1:25this was probably impatience but part of
41. 1:27it was probably also a desire to
42. 1:29maintain what I've party Unity survive
43. 1:31the general election campaign longer
44. 1:34leadership elections allow candidates to
45. 1:36attack each other publicly for longer
46. 1:38making it difficult for the party to
47. 1:39come back together afterwards however
48. 1:42there are also some problems with a
49. 1:44shorter leadership election which led
50. 1:46some to argue for a longer one shorter
51. 1:48leadership elections pushed the party to
52. 1:50act impulsively with those voting not
53. 1:52having the time to properly weigh up
54. 1:54their options we saw this with a 2022
55. 1:57leadership election in which the final
56. 1:59two candidates were selected in roughly
57. 2:01only a week this helped the Front
58. 2:03Runners which included Liz truss reach
59. 2:05the final two as other candidates simply
60. 2:07didn't have the time to build momentum
61. 2:10now the exact details of any leadership
62. 2:12election are determined by the 1922
63. 2:14committee as stipulated in the
64. 2:16conservative party's Constitution for
65. 2:18our International viewers the 1922
66. 2:20committee is the name given to the group
67. 2:22of backbench conservative MPS up until
68. 2:25the general election this year the 1922
69. 2:28committee was led by S gra Brady who
70. 2:30during his tenure helped to steer the
71. 2:32party through all kinds of crises with
72. 2:35him stepping down as an MP at this
73. 2:36year's election though a new 1922
74. 2:39committee chairman was needed as such
75. 2:42the 1922 committee organized a
76. 2:43leadership election firstly for
77. 2:45themselves on the understanding that the
78. 2:47winner would determine the overall terms
79. 2:50of the party's leadership election only
80. 2:52two candidates stood for the position
81. 2:54Bob Blackman and Jeffrey Clinton Brown
82. 2:57after a somewhat messy election in which
83. 2:59members of the 22 committee complain
84. 3:01that the voting ended earlier than they
85. 3:03originally planned meaning that they
86. 3:05were unable to cast their own vote but
87. 3:07Blackman came out Victorious after a lot
88. 3:09of debate in the party Blackman came to
89. 3:11the conclusion that a longer election
90. 3:13was preferable as we outlined earlier
91. 3:16this should force his colleagues to
92. 3:17think carefully about their decision the
93. 3:20rough outline of the leadership election
94. 3:22is as follows in order to be nominated a
95. 3:25candidate needs the backing of 10 of
96. 3:26their colleagues the deadline for
97. 3:28nominations was on Monday the 29th of
98. 3:31July at 2:30 p.m. any candidate that met
99. 3:34this threshold now has the month of
100. 3:36August to try and convince their
101. 3:37colleagues that they should lead the
102. 3:39party then between the 4th and the 11th
103. 3:42of September Tory MPS will Whittle down
104. 3:44the number of candidates to four who
105. 3:46will then use the Conservative Party
106. 3:48Conference to lay out their stall and
107. 3:50explain to both Tory MPS and The Wider
108. 3:52membership why they believe that they
109. 3:54should be entrusted with the party
110. 3:56leadership following the conference
111. 3:58between the 9th and 10th of October Tor
112. 4:00MPS will Whittle down the candidate list
113. 4:02even further to just two at this point
114. 4:05the membership vote will open and for
115. 4:07the rest of October members will be
116. 4:09eligible to cast their vote the ballot
117. 4:11will close on the 31st of October and
118. 4:13the new leader will be announced on the
119. 4:152nd of November so now we understand how
120. 4:17the leadership election Works let's move
121. 4:19on and have a look at which MPS have
122. 4:21been successful in reaching the 10
123. 4:23required nominations in total six
124. 4:25candidates have made their way through
125. 4:27the first round the first of these was
126. 4:29James cleverly the former foreign
127. 4:31secretary and current Shadow Home
128. 4:33Secretary of the declared candidates
129. 4:35cleverly might well be the most
130. 4:36difficult to pin down politically
131. 4:38generally he appears to be relatively
132. 4:40moderate and has been praised by his
133. 4:42colleagues and by civil servants for
134. 4:44being a safe Pair of Hands as a minister
135. 4:46he also has a background in the
136. 4:48territorial Army something that will
137. 4:50certainly help him with a section of the
138. 4:52Tory party membership however he may
139. 4:54struggle in the leadership election as
140. 4:56he hasn't really established a wider
141. 4:58political vision the next MP to make it
142. 5:00through was Tom tuanh hat like cleverly
143. 5:03tuanh hat also has a background in the
144. 5:05military serving in both Iraq and
145. 5:07Afghanistan unlike cleverly though he
146. 5:09hasn't yet served in the cabinet or
147. 5:11Shadow cabinet tugan Haack currently
148. 5:13serves as Shadow security minister after
149. 5:16tugan hat came Robert jck unlike tan hat
150. 5:19and cleverly generi is someone
151. 5:21associated with the right of the party
152. 5:23and someone who would like to see the
153. 5:24party move further right on immigration
154. 5:27he's already discussed a potential move
155. 5:28to the right under under his leadership
156. 5:30with him saying that to have any path
157. 5:32back to government we must win back
158. 5:34those voters we have lost across the
159. 5:36board but particularly to reform
160. 5:39following generic was Mel stride
161. 5:41probably the least well-known of the
162. 5:43declared candidates stride is a former
163. 5:45working pension secretary and a close
164. 5:47Ally of rishy sunak in fact he was Tred
165. 5:49to do a lot of the media interviews
166. 5:51during the election campaign like
167. 5:53cleverly he's seen as a safe Pair of
168. 5:55Hands among the party but ideologically
169. 5:58he's quite tricky to pin down
170. 6:00he's argued against what he described as
171. 6:02ideological labels when asked about a
172. 6:04potential rightwood shift although he
173. 6:06did add that he wants the Tory party to
174. 6:08have that of a one nation tradition
175. 6:12after Mel stride was pretty Patel a
176. 6:14former Home Secretary and someone seen
177. 6:16as on the right of the Tory party she's
178. 6:19regularly argued in favor of stricter
179. 6:21controls on immigration and certainly
180. 6:23has something of a following among the
181. 6:25right of the party last to declare was
182. 6:28KY badar another of the right and
183. 6:31current favorite to win the overall Tory
184. 6:33leadership election she's also
185. 6:35consistently pushed for further
186. 6:36restrictions on immigration and is very
187. 6:38popular among the Bas something that's
188. 6:40helped to put her into pole position
189. 6:43with such a long leadership contest on
190. 6:45the horizon though Anything Could Happen
191. 6:48be sure to keep an eye on this story as
192. 6:49it evolves as much like every area of
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