All (Dis) Quiet on the Westminster Front
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Liz Truss is back.
And oh.
So are those pauses.
She tells Spectator TV she doesn't want to be PM again but she does want to promote her economic ideas. (You remember the ones that nearly melted the markets). We ask why there has been so little self reflection. And if her economic diagnosis might one day prove right...
And we speak to Malte Grunert - producer of the world's most harrowing film, All Quiet on the Western Front about German attitudes to war, modern warfare and German history.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Do you regret going for Prime Minister? |
| 0:16.6 | No. I don't. I don't regret it. |
| 0:19.7 | And would you want to be Prime Minister again? No. |
| 0:23.3 | I thought you were a nervous and nervous sort of person. |
| 0:27.4 | I think... I definitely want to be part of, you know, promoting a progress agenda. |
| 0:38.7 | I definitely want to carry on as a MP. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm positive about the future of Britain. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm positive about the future of the Conservative Party. |
| 0:49.0 | I think we need to start building more of a strong intellectual base. But I'm not desperate to get back |
| 0:59.9 | into number 10 now. So that was Liz Truss. She's back. And the good news is she doesn't want to |
| 1:05.8 | become PM again. And the bad news is that she does want to carry on promoting her economic agenda. So watch this |
| 1:13.5 | space. It's been an interesting last week on the newsagents because we've heard from a number of |
| 1:20.9 | characters actually who seem to have left self-reflection at the door. And although Liz Trust does say that she got her |
| 1:29.7 | communications wrong, that she wasn't the slickest, that she didn't quite find the support |
| 1:35.0 | that she thought she would, there isn't a lot of self-scrutiny in terms of where she herself |
| 1:43.4 | could have done massive things a little differently. |
| 1:47.2 | It's probably something to do with the age we live in and the echo chambers that we live in. |
| 1:52.1 | The politicians, maybe they weren't, they're not the most self-reflective breed at the best of times, |
| 1:57.0 | but they're almost incentivised not to be. Problem of course is for Rishi Sunak is that he has |
| 2:02.4 | not just one, not just two, but three former prime ministers on his back benches, and at least |
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