Cancelling HS2 and GB News + Lib Dem Layla Moran

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Conservative Party heads to Manchester for its Conference as rumours swirl that Rishi Sunak is going to axe the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the HS2 high speed rail line that was supposed to unlock the potential of The North - a bit awkward then! Coco and her special guest Grace Blakeley discuss why it’s all gone wrong and what it says about us as a country that we can’t seem to deliver big infrastructure projects on budget, on time, or at all.

With party conference season in full swing, Lib Dem MP Layla Moran (and her cat Murphy) joins us after their shindig in Bournemouth. She discusses tactical voting and tells us that her party definitely won’t be going into coalition with the Tories - although it doesn’t have any ‘red lines’ for working with Labour. Plus she reveals the Labour ‘diss’ track she sang at the infamous Lib Dem ‘Glee Club’ karaoke night.

Coco and Grace discuss the scandal engulfing GB News, amid calls for it to be taken off air, following an avalanche of complaints over Laurence Fox’s offensive comments about a female journalist. And Coco asks Grace if she would go on GB News.

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Guests:

Grace Blakeley, economist and author

Layla Moran, Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, and party spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and International Development

Audio credit:

Liberal Democrats

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Pod Save the UK, this is a wave filming, so we've called in our
0:16.2	very clever friend Grace Blakely to help us out this week. Regular listeners may remember
0:21.2	Grace from episode 15 when we discuss Rishi Soonach's wealth, where the billionaires should
0:25.5	even exist and the fanciest meals we've ever had. Author and economist Grace Blakely,
0:30.2	hello, thank you so much for having me, it's a pleasure to be back. So Grace, as you know,
0:36.9	we try and do this podcast by being very honest about who we are, we try to be different,
0:41.1	not like the other girls, when you see them on the telly and you just think you're friends of all
0:45.0	those politicians you're talking about, we know inside deep down you are. We try and be a bit more
0:49.0	honest, so let's get to it, your voting record, let's hear it. My voting record, so I think the first
0:54.4	election that I was old enough to vote in was 2015 and I voted green. I was very much like
1:00.9	anti austerity, like, you know, I'm a socialist basically. And since then, I voted Labour
1:08.2	and you know, I've been pretty involved in the Labour Party less so now, more so during the
1:12.6	kind of Jeremy Corbyn period. As I said, I'm a kind of proud socialist, so technically that is
1:19.0	supposed to be the ideology of the Labour Party. If you remember the Labour Party and you turn
1:22.2	over your membership card, it says it's a democratic socialist party, although at the moment,
1:26.8	it seems to be kind of moving away from that sort of ideology. But yeah, I'm a democratic socialist,
1:33.6	I think that ordinary people should be in control of the most important decisions that affect
1:41.0	their lives, whether that's in the economy, at work, in politics. I think power should be kind of
1:46.4	shared out amongst people rather than centralised among a few people at the top, so I would explain
1:50.5	it basically. So does that mean that, you know, you haven't decided who you're going to vote for in
1:54.9	the next one? It's a toughy. It is a tough one because, you know, on the one hand, obviously,
2:01.2	I want to see the Tories out. On the other hand, I don't want to kind of give an endorsement to
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