As Theresa May’s final chief of staff, Gavin Barwell knows what it’s like to see a party oust its leader first-hand. He speaks to political correspondent Ailbhe Rea about what it takes to get rid of a leader, where Boris Jonson is going wrong, and whether the Conservatives still feels like his party.
Then in a special We ask Stephen, Ailbhe asks the New Statesman‘s political editor Stephen Bush why Sadiq Khan finally ran out of patience with Cressida Dick.
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