The Friday Fix

With the final two Conservative party leadership candidates selected, Russ Lynch and Mark Leftly cast their critical eyes over their standing within the selectorate, and look at how the Conservative party got to where it is today.

This is the last episode in this series of The Powerscourt Friday Fix. Until we return after the summer, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

“The business community is probably about as divided as the Tory Party is at the moment”: Jim Armitage, business editor of The Sunday Times, sits down for breakfast with Russ Lynch to tell him what he is hearing  from the business community about the conservative leadership contest. 

“What is extraordinary is the gall of Boris to try to hang on when so many of his Cabinet and his backbenchers wanted him to go”: Gina Miller, leader of the True & Fair Party, shares her thoughts on the collapse of Boris Johnson’s government and what the Conservative’s next steps might be. Interviewed this week by Mark Leftly, head of politics at Powerscourt.

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“I received a press release about the stress of being the target of multiple emails – and then there was a follow up email saying ‘Did you receive my email about the stress of receiving so many emails?’”

Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday business editor Ruth Sunderland speaks to Russ Lynch about combining newsrooms, the shifting gender balance in business journalism, and her most burning frustrations with the PR world.

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"I believe there is a huge demand for business and finance news and analysis being done in a different way": Graham Ruddick, former deputy business editor at The Times, lifts the lid on his switch to newsletter subscription platform Substack and what drives him to challenge the status quo of contemporary journalism.

This episode is hosted by Russ Lynch, a director in Powerscourt’s campaigns team.

"Everybody is affected, every single employer is thinking about how they use the office": Charlie Green, co-founder & co-CEO of The Office Group (TOG) speaks to Justin Griffiths about how the pandemic has reshaped how and where we work.

The office is far from dead - it is alive and kicking, just not as we used to know it!

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"There are half a million customers playing in the black market. They're spending over £3 billion where there is no protection, no interaction, no intervention in any shape or form": Grainne Hurst, director of corporate affairs at international sports betting and gaming company Entain, shares her hopes and concerns ahead of the governments' long-awaited Gambling Act review.

Interviewed this week by Powerscourt's Rob Greening, Partner & co-head of Consumer Industries.

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“Fraud accounts for 42% of all crime against individuals. It's the most commonly experienced crime in England and Wales”: Baroness Nicky Morgan speaks to Powerscourt’s head of politics Mark Leftly about her work chairing the House of Lords Select Committee on Digital Fraud.

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“There's a kind of logical dissonance to dismissing the fact that the protocol is in itself a consequence of Brexit”: Powerscourt alumnus Matthew O’Toole, Social Democratic and Labour Party MLA for Belfast South, discusses the current challenges of the Northern Ireland Protocol with Powerscourt CEO Rory Godson.

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“Hopefully the stigma is starting to relax”: James Short, CEO of Celadon Pharmaceuticals, speaks about changing public perceptions of medical cannabis in the UK.

Interview by Sarah MacLeod, head of healthcare at Powerscourt.

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