Westminster Gossip: Dishi Rishi's Future

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I've got some gossip. Okay, we like gossip. Westminster gossip, folks. So you know how I was saying that Rishi Sunak pops up in Prime Minister's Questions today and I was suddenly like, wow, gosh, yes, that's a reminder he is still leader of the opposition. Oh, him, yeah.

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But obviously not for much longer because the Tories have got their leadership contest. So the word is that Rishi Sunak is preparing to resign as an MP. And that would, of course, trigger a rather juicy by-election. In Richmond, in Yorkshire. In Yorkshire. Now, he held on to that seat quite easily, I mean, with a decent enough margin.

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But, you know, that's partly because he was the Prime Minister. So I think the Conservatives would hold on to that seat, and it still seemed to be a very desirable seat. I understand that Penny Mordaunt has been... eyeing it up and is said to have been spending a little bit of time in yorkshire a