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The Rest Is Politics

64. Hunt U-turn as Truss goes missing

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

News, Politics, Government

4.5 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

As a divided Conservative Party tries desperately to work out how to replace Liz Truss, Rory and Alastair discuss the likely moves over the coming days and weeks in Westminster. Will the Conservatives find a way to avoid another membership vote to determine the next PM? Plus Biden, Japan, and debt forgiveness. Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to access Wednesday's 9am presale for our second date at the London Palladium on Tuesday 21st March 2023. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to another episode of The Restisted Politics with me, Alistair Campbell.

0:12.0

And me, Rory Stewart.

0:13.0

And we bring this to you a day earlier than usual.

0:17.0

We're recording it Monday night.

0:19.0

You'll have it Tuesday morning, because frankly, such is the pace of what's going on in Westminster

0:25.0

around the future of the government that we, frankly, don't dare wait another 24 hours

0:30.0

because we could be out of date.

0:32.0

We might even, as things are going, we might even have the new Prime Minister by then.

0:36.0

I think I don't think we'll have a new chance. I think Jeremy Hunts there for a bit.

0:39.0

But anyway, before we get on to all of that, we have some good hopefully for two and a half thousand of you.

0:46.0

Some good news.

0:47.0

You may have heard, in fact, you will have heard, because I was boasting about it all week,

0:51.0

we sold out our live date at the London Pladeum in seven minutes.

0:56.0

I had told them, Rory, I said to them, book the O2 or book the Wembley Arena, but no, no, no.

1:02.0

They didn't listen. They went for the Pladeum.

1:04.0

We haven't managed, Alistair did not manage to persuade us to play to an empty Wembley Stadium.

1:09.0

But we aren't going to do another night at the Pladeum.

1:13.0

So the night before our original date, Tuesday March 21st.

1:17.0

So all the people who miss out on tickets, we've gone back to the theatre and they have provided tickets for the night before.

1:23.0

So please sign up and hopefully in the first nine minutes for Tuesday March 21st.

1:28.0

Yeah, so this is what you need to know.

1:31.0

We got as per the last time when it was from March 22nd,

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