Hello, welcome to another episode of The Restless Polities with me, Alistair Campbell and

me, Rory Stewart. And we're recording this on Tuesday, having just listened to yet another

round of pretty catastrophic interviews with the Prime Minister, Liz Truss, but speaking

ahead of her speech to the Tory party conference, although I think we can fairly predict much

of what she's going to say. And this is also the last of our podcasts before Saturday,

this Saturday, 8 October, Blackpool Winter Gardens, top, the top of the theatre, still some

tickets left if you want them, just get onto RestlessPolitics.com or Google Winter Gardens

Restless Politics, and it'd be lovely to see you there. Now we're going to talk about

lots of things today. There were several general elections at the weekend, Brazil, Bosnia,

probably the most complicated electoral system on the planet, Bulgaria, Latvia, we'll sort

of dip into them. Rory and I both want to talk about Yemen. We also will have to, I fear, Rory

kick off, I think, with British domestic politics and Camille Quasi. I mean, he's still there,

but so is the Camille Quasi government just becoming a complete catastrophe, isn't it?

Yeah, so just to update listeners who maybe aren't focusing every minute on UK politics.

There's been a U-turn on his tax cut, so the straw that broke the Camille's back, as it

were, and that announcement, they'd signaled an advanced list-trusted signal in advance

of being leader that she was going to stop the rises and corporation tax national insurance,

so she was going to affect the cut tax. And she'd also signaled that she was putting

out this big energy package. So if that had been all she'd done, you wouldn't have expected

the markets to react quite as dramatically and negatively. The straw that broke Camille's

back seemed to be the decision to drop the top-rate income tax from 45% to 40%, and at

a moment where the government looked like it's going to be borrowing much more, that seemed

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