the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello and welcome. today we are asking what role the media has in choosing the next conservative leader. how do you cover an election campaign that most of the public doesn t have a say in? and what might all this mean for a channel a s planned privatisation? next week s media bill, which would have included details of the sale has now been delayed. my guests today, fraser nelson, editor of the spectator, a publication at the heart of the conservative establishment. famously, borisjohnson was an editor of the magazine, kemi badenoch also work there for a bit. fraser, hello, will you be anointing a leader? we re going to find out a five o clock. apparentlyjeremy hunt is struggling to stay in. but the big news, of course, is that a yougov poll has put penny mordaunt way ahead of all of her rivals. the betting markets have moved behind her now so she is the odds on favourite. and will the spectator come out for h
mordaunt is a junior minister, suella braverman may get - through, i doubt it. but we are looking at people who can plausibly say they ve been outside of high politics. there is a merit in. re setting the rules, i would like to see all of us in the interests. - in the national interest, | in the interest of good governance put every single one of these candidates - through the wringer of decent, i probing, fact based interviews. some of them will never get the chance after- five o clock tonight. but i would like to see - all of them put through that. 0k. i d like to bring in hardeep, editor of byline times. your publication was set up to try and counter what your fans would say is the out sized influence of the right wing press. what s your take on all of this? for me the question, when i look at all this leadership contest coverage is, who is this coverage ultimately for? is it genuinely for the public so that they can be