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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 14 July 2022 - GDP grew in May despite concerns
Description: The first vote in the process to elect a new leader of the Conservative took place yesterday, and it meant the end of the road for the campaigns of current Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zahawi, and the runner to Boris Johnson in 2019, Jeremy Hunt.
Hunt immediately backed yesterday’s winner Rishi Sunak while Zahawi said he wanted his supporters to make up their own minds.
Sunak polled the most votes, 88. He was followed by the three female candidates, with Penny Morduant second.
Sunak’s support within the Parliamentary Party looks to be sufficiently solid, for him to be one of t...