2020 Hindsight: The Tories’ year of living dangerously, with DAVID GAUKE

<p><em>How it started, how it’s going…</em> This was a year that blew up Boris Johnson’s plans for post-Brexit Britain and forced the Conservatives into uncharacteristic economic intervention. What has 2020 done to a newly-purified party of true believers? Former Conservative MP <strong>David Gauke</strong> tells Ros Taylor about the state of the New Tories, what would have happened if Cameron hadn’t called a referendum on the EU, and how the Conservatives have become “a party of protest, not government”.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li><em>“It’s a discontented party. It’s uncomfortable. And it’s rebellious.”</em></li><li><em>“It’s now hard to see that there’ll ever be pro-European advocacy in the Conservative party again.”</em></li><li><em>“There’ll be a gravitational pull towards those socially conservative Red Wall voters…&nbsp;Anyone who’s expecting a return to Cameron-style government will be disappointed.”&nbsp;</em></li><li><em>“The Tory Party has taken on the personality of a newspaper columnist, rather than a traditional party of government.”</em></li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>