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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Lights! Camera! Faction! Inside the warring Tory tribes
Description: From the ERG to the CGG, the different factions within the Conservatives build up a picture of the divisions within the party. But what do all of the different groups stand for, and why don’t we seem to see the same splintering within Labour? Professor Tim Bale, author of The Conservative Party After Brexit, joins Marie le Conte to find out.
“Tendencies mean that the party is more easily managed, factions make it much harder to manage, and they make governing much harder as well.”
“There’s a lot of groups that got go...