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Conservative Party leadership; b) C4N: PETER MORGAN ENGLAND: Surrey: Guildford: EXT Busker playing flute in high street Various of pedestrians and shoppers in town centre Guildhall clock Vox pops - re Tory Party leadership Various of local cricket match in progress Nick St Aubyn chatting with customers in pub (?) garden Nick St Aubyn (former Conservative MP, Guildford) interviewed SOT - Conservative Party's on cliff edge right now, but we don't need to jump off / Need to send message that we've really changed / When we elected Thatcher we elected first woman leader, that sent out big message that party had changed / We've got to signal that we've learnt lesson, not just waiting for something to turn up to bring us back / There was thought that magic potion marked keep the pound or cut taxes that would transform us into party of power, didn't work, back to drawing board/ Reporter sitting chatting with local Tory activists in pub garden/ Sarah Creedy (Branch Secretary, Guildford South) interview SOT - We were too hasty in choosing leader 4 years ago, still in shock, arrogant as to how quickly we were going to come back, didn't have proper debate/ Andrew Hodges (Conservative Leader, Guildford Council) interview SOT - Needs to be today's language, young people now don't exactly speak different language but vocabulary's different, need to think about what words we use Vas Kapsalis (Guildford Councillor) interview SOT - There was narrow focus on issues such as Euro, that wasn't top of people's items to be discussed / We need to raise our view of health service up ladder of debate Matthew Hancock / Matt Hancock (Constituency Agent) interviewed SOT - Comparison is with Labour Party of 1980s, then evidence was all around that socialism doesn't work / Labour's answer was to steal our clothes, we need to steal our clothes back Busker playing flute in high street TX 9.6.2001/C4N