Chatham House analyst on selection of next UK PM

(20 Oct 2022) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS London - 20 October 2022 STARTS ON SOUNDBITE 1. SOUNDBITE (English) David Lawrence, Research Fellow, UK in the World Initiative, Chatham House: “I think what most people in the Conservative Party realise, and they're right, is that they need that unity candidate. Someone who can bring together different parts of the party, who can help the party unite to tackle the economic crisis and to tackle an increasingly confident and assertive Labour Party. The challenge is that there is no obvious unity candidate. People have history. We've just come out of a quite a bloody internal Conservative leadership election where one half the party spent a lot of time throwing mud at the other side where Liz Truss's supporters were saying nasty things about Rishi Sunak and vice versa. So it's hard to imagine that someone like Rishi Sunak's suddenly going to be able to unite the party. The same goes for Boris Johnson, wh