Can Liz Truss keep the lights on?

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This episode was recorded before the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Lord Martin Callanan, junior minister at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, joins Christopher Hope to explain the “bazooka” of Government spending the new Prime Minister has announced to deal with the impending energy crisis, and how it will impact us all.

And director general of the IEA, Mark Littlewood, predicts a radical future for his old Oxford buddy Liz Truss, and insists that the fact she used to wear a Lib Dem rosette isn't a hindrance.

Also on the podcast, Eddie Lister, Lord Udny-Lister, former adviser to Boris Johnson, reflects on his legacy and how shy and retiring the former leaders is planning to be going forward. Plus Laura Farris MP, on why she stepped down from the committee looking into Partygate.

Why my old friend Liz Truss will be the most radical British prime minister in a century, by Mark Littlewood |

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0:00.0	Coming up on Chopper's politics.
0:04.0	I don't know whether I describe her as right-wing.
0:06.0	Because she's so socially liberal, she's not a kind of hardcore social conservative.
0:10.0	She's very pro-individual freedom.
0:12.0	We might have our most libertarian
0:14.3	prime minister ever. I think that's true.
0:18.3	Hello and welcome to choppers politics. I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor for Politics. And today
0:25.8	we have a small board of brilliant guests for you, dear listener. Later in the programme
0:30.4	we'll be talking from longtime Boris Johnson ally, Lord Udne Lister, Sir Eddie Lister to you
0:35.5	and me, to ask what's next in store for our former Prime Minister.
0:39.7	And talk to Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs and a former liberal
0:43.6	Democrat converted to a Conservative, just like our new Prime Minister Liz Truss.
0:50.1	But first, this week Liz Truss is showing the first rule of governing is never to waste a crisis.
0:56.9	As she unveiled on Thursday lunchtime what in Whitehall is known as a bazooka of government spending to deal with the soaring and the
1:05.4	crippling cost of energy. So I thought now was as good a time as any to invite on to
1:10.8	the program Lord Kalanan Martin Kalan and Junior Minister in the Business,
1:16.0	Energy and Industrial Strati Department. The Ministry behind the program of
1:20.3	announcements we heard on Thursday.
1:22.3	Lord Kalan of announcements we heard on Thursday.
1:23.0	Lord Kalan, Martin Kalan, a minister in the business department.
1:27.0	Thank you for joining us this week on Chova's Politics.
1:31.0	My pleasure.
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