Welcome to the Restless Politics Special Edition with me, Rory Stewart and me, Anastakamble.

And this is, I think you said, I think I agree with you, the week that everything changed,

but do you want to tell us why this is the week that everything changed?

Well, two big things. The first is, I think that Kierstammer found his voice and found confidence.

And I think confidence is such an important thing in any campaign, but especially in politics.

And I think he has, at times, lack confidence, but I think he showed, I think he just,

you just sensed he was confident. He thinks he can win.

The second thing is that it comes at the time where the Tories are losing confidence,

particularly in Liz Truss and Quasie Quarting.

And of course, the markets have completely lost confidence, which is then just sending the whole thing

into a vicious spiral, both economically and politically.

There's an amazing, amazing kind of combination of things happening, isn't there?

I think Raphael Barron, the Guardian, put it quite nicely because the budget, he said,

seemed to be the most extraordinary combination of destroying any claims of the conservative party

to economic credibility. And at the same time, focusing on a narrative that they're just out there

to help their wealthy friends. I mean, it was almost the worst of all worlds that you could possibly do

with a conservative budget.

And you are, I know in Jordan, so you may not have had the pleasure that those of us in this country

have had of listening to what I think will go down in history as, on a par with Prince Andrew's

pizza express interview in terms of a disastrous media round.

And in fact, somebody just reminded me that one of Liz Truss' media advisors was formally an advisor

to Prince Andrew. So just quickly, for listeners and other parts of the world, what's happened?

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