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18 October 2024updated 14 Sep 2025 8:44am

Will Kemi Badenoch split the Tories?

Andrew Marr, Hannah Barnes and Rachel Cunliffe answer your questions.


With “normal” James Cleverly out of the Tory leadership race, a listener asks if a Badenoch or Jenrick leadership would split the Conservative party in two.

Andrew Marr, Hannah Barnes and Rachel Cunliffe answer listener questions in our weekly episode, You Ask Us – published every Friday.

Also in this episode: do journalists talk about Westminster gossip too much? Our own journalists give their answer!


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