And he might want to explain to us, I mean, you may feel differently about this, but what I thought was a pretty vile opposition ad that he put out against his Democrat rival.

I actually completely to me with Tim.

I don't know how else to describe it, but vile.

It was absolutely disgusting.

So a few weeks out, obviously, from the midterm election for when he's going up against his Democratic rival, who is a lady called Amy Acton.

Now, this is quite a tight race, which was not expected.

This was supposed to be an open goal for Vivek Ramaswamy.

I don't know if Tucker said this, but is people like them coming out and saying, stay home, is that going to have any kind of effect on the result?

Do you think she spent the last year doing that? And is she doing a good job at that?

I remember very vividly last Tory conference because the Telegraph asked me to vox pop young Conservatives, which would be difficult enough anywhere in the country.

Surprisingly very difficult at a Conservative Party conference.

I couldn't seem to find anyone.

So I do remember that kind of air of despair that was hanging over the proceedings that year.

It's difficult to say whether or not Kemi has actually turned the fortunes of the Conservative Party around.

She has certainly changed her personal fortunes around.

we think? I wish

Do you think she spent the last year doing that? And is she doing a good job at that?

I remember very vividly last Tory conference because the Telegraph asked me to vox pop young Conservatives, which would be difficult enough anywhere in the country.

Surprisingly very difficult at a Conservative Party conference.

I couldn't seem to find anyone.

So I do remember that kind of air of despair that was hanging over the proceedings that year.

It's difficult to say whether or not Kemi has actually turned the fortunes of the Conservative Party around.

She has certainly changed her personal fortunes around.

And do you think there's almost a kind of bashfulness nowadays about people either admitting to using AI or asking people if they're using it, but actually is the truth that probably more people are using it than we think? I wish people

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So I do remember that kind of air of despair that was hanging over the proceedings that year.

It, it's difficult to say whether or not Kemi's actually turned the fortunes of the Conservative Party around.

She has certainly changed her personal fortunes around.

One of the interesting things that's happened in the last year is that Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch's personal poll links has, have basically just flipped over.

So Nigel Farage last year was at minus 6%, which sounds bad, but for a British politician, that's actually a pretty good personal favorability rating.

And Kemi Badenoch's were quite low.

Do you think that will play well for Kemi, Poppy?

yes, I know that book, yeah.

Very sensitively done.

She's a neurologist.

So she came at it from the perspective of she does psychosomatic illnesses.

She knows that they're real.

She knows that just because it's psychosomatic doesn't mean it's in your head.

I mean, it's literally in your head, but that doesn't mean that you're making it up.

It's also very politicized, that one.

Do you think it'll unfold that... 'Cause I genuinely think it will fall on its ass really, really quickly.

Well, yeah.

I mean, there's, there's loads of reasons why it will.

I mean, firstly, there's the geopolitical situation, which to be fair to him, is out of his control.

I mean, people will not be happy with a Prime Minister that is imposing high taxes, that can't make your quality of life better, can't do anything about the cost of living, which he can't do.

I mean, he's already kind of showing us who he is.

You know, he's, um, he's obviously just announced that we're gonna go back to spending 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid again.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm

... politicians do not talk about it, I think they would be absolutely horrified.

But we don't want to have to live in a fortress society either.

I, I think ultimately it's a question of consent.

If you consent to have your house being put online, then that is fine.

That is your choice to do so.

If you do not, I can see why it's distressing.

Mm

Do you? You do think it is.

I do think so.

I mean, look, I understand that that is the route that they're gonna have to take.

Like, they have to go all the way through the Baltics as well to get round to us.

The channel is something they have to do.

But you notice that they avoid Swedish waters when they do the initial route through the Baltics, but they don't avoid British waters.

And I wonder how much of that comes from the fact that we don't have a naval presence anymore.

Do you?

What a day.

Yeah, really, what a day.

I mean, I- there's not many occasions in life where I'm not jealous of the King, but I think this is probably one of them.

I mean, it's pretty nerve-wracking-

... you've attacked democracy, all those things

...

but also the way he doesn't, the way he doesn't cower, the way he kind of gets up and goes on, I think people do actually find that quite remarkable.

Um, you know, he did that the first time he was shot, when he actually was shot in the ear.