Graham Brady talks to Anthony Seldon

The man at the centre of the dismissal and election of recent prime ministers Lord Graham Brady lifts the lid on inner goings-on at Westminster as David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak came and went as leaders of the Conservative Party and the country.

Brady was chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs from 2010 until the last election. As such he was at the heart of every leadership election and also the man tasked with telling prime ministers when it was time to go. Brady describes how he rose from a lower middle class background in Salford to election in 1997 as the youngest Conservative MP in the house and ultimately to becoming the backbench MP at the very heart of the destructive leadership battles of the last few years. Brady looks at leadership failures in Westminster, discusses their origins and questions who will be fit to lead us in future.

Here he talks to contemporary historian Sir Anthony Seldon, author of books about the office of prime minister and of biographies of many recent prime ministers from Blair to Cameron, Johnson and Truss.