Planet Normal: Tom Tugendhat on his bid for Tory leadership | Podcast

Strapping into the rocket of right thinking this week for a Planet Normal exclusive is Tory leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat who shares the reasons why he thinks he can carry the party back to power in five years, and why he wants to get the selection process completed as soon as possible to lead an effective opposition.

Whilst co-pilot Pearson is doing some on the ground reporting in Israel, temporary co-pilot Nick Timothy steps into the cockpit.

On the agenda Nick ponders whether Health Secretary Wes Streeting has the ‘walk’ to match the ‘talk’ that the NHS so desperately needs to reform. Whilst Liam expresses some concerns at some of the economic narratives coming from the Labour Party ahead of the Autumn Statement.

[-DC-]

The NHS is a service with a Capacity for 50 Million People in a Country with Minimum 80 million and rising, Uncontrolled Immigration has brought Britain to its knees.

[shelleyscloud]

Tom is where we needed the government to be 10 years ago. Then it was about stopping the rot but now it’s about reversing it. He is utterly blind to the rapidly shifting Overton window which leaves positions such as his in the dust.

[Cotictimmy]

Tom Tugendhat sounds very polished and media trained, but (as in the final desperate days of Rishi Sunak), I think all this fine talk of "protecting our borders" is just rhetoric to take back voters back from Reform. I hear no concrete proposals to end mass migration from Tom. I want to see an accommodation with Reform & some real evidence of a determination to act on mass immigration like that shown Suella Braverman (before she was sacked & smeared - by 'One Nation' Conservatives.) If the 'One Nation' Conservative faction manage to neutralize Nigel Farage & Reform, then they will most likely return to type & their previous CBI/Global Institutional open borders/net zero E.V./multiculturalism agenda and NOT an agenda of more popular citizen-voter democracy.

[specialistcarmarketing]

Tugendhat doesnt get it, the rhetoric is fine but we've had over 10 years of rhetoric and no delivery.

[foundfoundfound]

tugboat needs to find his inner william pitt the younger and stop genuflecting to england’s traditional continental enemies.

[AnnStahley]

So have Tom, Allison and Nick ever had IQ tests?

[TheJcure]

In general the telegraph keeps putting out the most stupid headlines they come across as bitter right wing losers !!