200: Liz Truss and the crumbling of the Tory Party
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🗓️ 21 October 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello and welcome to the Spike podcast I'm Fraser Myers and I'm joined by |
| 0:21.8 | Spike's editor Tom Slater on this extraordinary day in British politics to discuss the unraveling of Liz Truss. |
| 0:38.6 | So it's over Liz Truss is out 44 days in office making her the shortest serving prime minister in history it's been an incredible just whirlwind of sort of just six weeks. |
| 0:44.8 | Tom was your sort of immediate reaction to this resignation? |
| 0:48.2 | Well of course it was inevitable by this point of course you know she had to go |
| 0:52.1 | the letters had to win |
| 0:53.1 | that should tribute act to hang up her pussy bow for good because of everything that |
| 0:59.0 | has happened even since we last recorded the podcast on Saturday her |
| 1:02.4 | position has become more and more untenable. |
| 1:04.8 | I suppose the feeling I'm left with at this particular point is just in a way how surprising it was that |
| 1:10.5 | she was ever elevated that particular office in the first place. |
| 1:14.0 | It's been, she's come under incredible pressure from a lot of quite sort of extreme and |
| 1:20.4 | anti-democratic forces in some respects the force of the markets the |
| 1:24.8 | technocrats the media all of those things will probably talk about but there was |
| 1:29.2 | also just a thing that was always at the center which is that she is just really sort of rubbish. |
| 1:33.7 | I mean the argument that was made for going into all of this was that she was |
| 1:36.5 | underestimated. The women who got up at Tory Party conference and he's famous for |
| 1:41.3 | jabbering about cheese and pork markets and all the rest of it is just this on the quiet genius who really has a plan really has a vision for the country and is there to implement it. |
| 1:52.0 | Given what's happened since that mini budget was delivered, it was all junked. |
| 1:56.0 | And then just everything in the Tory party just kind of completely fell apart and a government just crumbled before our very eyes. |
| 2:02.0 | You are just left with that sense that it's been in British politics for some... and a government just crumbled before our very eyes. |
| 2:02.5 | You are just left with that sense that it's been in British politics |
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