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Coffee House Shots

Can Truss calm the markets?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Liz Truss has delivered an 8-minute long press conference confirming the latest corporation tax U-turn and insisting she will stay on as Prime Minister. Did it do enough to reassure voters and calm the markets?

Cindy Yu speaks to James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson.

Produced by Cindy Yu and Natasha Feroze.

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:06.7

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0:09.8

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0:16.0

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Trust.

0:17.6

The site says it's daily politics podcast,

0:19.5

and I'm Cindy and I'm joined by J.S.I.

0:21.6

and Professor Nelson.

0:23.3

So James, we've just seen List Trust's press conference,

0:26.2

delayed by half an hour to 230 instead.

0:29.1

Did it do the task of reassuring the party,

0:32.2

the market's voters?

0:34.0

I think it was surprisingly brief.

0:36.5

And I think in a press conference on a moment like this,

0:40.1

I think as a politician, you want your own words to provide the headline.

0:43.6

And because I'm not sure that they will in this instance,

0:47.8

because she only answered, I think, four questions.

0:50.3

And she didn't seem to have a clear message.

0:53.3

And I think the problem she's got is having sex,

0:55.9

her trans, her closest ideal to go out.

0:58.9

And having jumped one of the main pledges of her leadership campaign.

1:02.5

It's quite hard for her to find a message that resonates.

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