Summary
Liz Truss assembles her new team.
Kwasi Kwarteng has been named chancellor, James Cleverly is foreign secretary, and Therese Coffey is the new health secretary.
Adam and Chris are joined by Gavin Barwell, former Downing Street chief of staff, and Charlotte Ivers, political correspondent at Times Radio, to discuss the new Prime Minister’s first day and the latest appointments.
Today’s episode was made by Tim Walklate with Cordelia Hemming, Miranda Slade and Danny Wittenberg. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, now did I not say a couple of episodes ago |
| 0:07.7 | that because the Queen is in Bel Moro, |
| 0:09.6 | that meant that Boris Johnson and Liz Truss |
| 0:11.8 | were gonna have to trape all the way up there |
| 0:13.5 | and all the way back to do the Prime Ministerial handover, |
| 0:16.8 | which meant we were gonna be in for some vintage cars |
| 0:20.3 | driving through places, news coverage. |
| 0:22.9 | Well today did not disappoint |
| 0:25.0 | because Hugh Edwards was in Dianne Street |
| 0:26.9 | with my colleague Nick Eardley |
| 0:28.6 | and they were commenting live on the Cana Liz Truss car chase |
| 0:33.2 | as she went through a very, very stormy London. |
| 0:36.4 | Well, I'm sure the mics are picking it up, |
| 0:38.8 | but the rain is now hammering down on the umbrella, |
| 0:41.6 | so... |
| 0:42.6 | And because she took a really securitious route |
| 0:44.2 | and they also didn't know if she was gonna do a speech |
| 0:46.4 | in the street or not, because it was raining, |
| 0:48.2 | it just took ages and the tension kept building. |
| 0:51.8 | Once rain gets into those mics, well, it was all happened. |
| 0:54.6 | But it meant we got to see in here Hugh Edwards |
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