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7 Oct 2017

“It was a cack-handed coup”: Charles Walker MP on May leadership contest calls

Presenter

More Conservative big guns have given their backing to Theresa May. We spoke to Conservative MP and vice-chairman of the 1922 backbench committee, Charles Walker.

And we also spoke to a past master of leadership plots and challenges – the Conservative grandee Lord Heseltine, who said Theresa May’s government wouldn’t last until Brexit – and that Labour could win.