All the candidates support brexet, even if they didn't support it at the time. There is tension within the conservative party between boris johnson's coalition of voters and hard corps tory members who want something quite different. Right now a liz truss is actually the favorite over richi suna. And that is really because she has adopted this more hard line conservative to asor of thacherite position. But don't write him off, because he's a very slick, professional, smart operator.
Britain’s Conservative party is spending the summer choosing its next prime minister. The Atlantic’s Tom McTague introduces the candidates vying to replace him.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan with help from Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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