Sarah Corbett, Fred D'Aguiar, David Harsent, Jackie Kay, Glyn Maxwell, Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel, Jo Shapcott and Ken Smith are also on the shortlist.

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The contest has got increasingly bitter over the last few weeks with a war of words between Ken Clarke and Iain Duncan Smith over subjects like race and Europe, of course, I'll be speaking to Iain Duncan Smith in just a few moments but first Steve Norris.

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The reason we've got Steve here is that when we had Ken Clarke on a week or two before we had one of his opponents first and so following that fairness we have Steve Norris who is not a supporter of Iain Duncan Smith, he's support Ken Clarke, and originally supported Michael Portillo.

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And why do you think that Ken Clarke could save the day and that Iain Duncan Smith cannot?

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Board member and Chief Marketing Officer Peter Bamford left on April 1, finance director Ken Hydon departed after the company's annual meeting last July and Sir Julian Horn-Smith will retire shortly.

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