Does Liz Truss have any regrets?
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The Spectator
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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Canacor Genuity Wealth Management, experienced wealth planners and |
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| 0:11.9 | information. Hello, I'm James Syphon, I'm joined by Katie Walls here in Parliament. We've just |
| 0:22.1 | heard Liz Truss' departure speech from Dying Street. Here's what she had to say. |
| 0:27.0 | From my time as Prime Minister, I am more convinced than ever that we need to be bold and confront |
| 0:34.0 | the challenges that we face. As the Roman philosopher, Seneca wrote, it's not because things are |
| 0:41.7 | difficult that we do not dare. It's because we do not dare that they are difficult. We simply cannot |
| 0:49.9 | afford to be a low growth country where the government takes up an increasing share of our national |
| 0:56.3 | wealth. So I think the first thing that struck me about that speech was the fact that it wasn't |
| 1:01.9 | an apologetic speech. Instead, Liz Truss ultimately came out and I think when Theresa May had to step |
| 1:11.5 | down and obviously you have different types of speech. So you have your immediate resonated speech, |
| 1:15.0 | the one when you leave, but it felt so she was choking up a bit and I think Liz Truss held it |
| 1:21.1 | together very well, but also in terms of what she was trying to do that speech. It didn't feel |
| 1:26.0 | as though it was a speech she wanted to discuss regrets or even offer an apology in the way that |
| 1:30.8 | she had offered an apology earlier on when she was still Prime Minister or in the interview about |
| 1:35.6 | the way things have been handled, but instead she wanted to talk more about the positives of her |
| 1:39.6 | very short-time as Prime Minister and also give a hint to what she'll be doing next and the quote we |
| 1:46.2 | just heard I think relates to when it comes to her low tax growth agenda, it was quite clear that |
| 1:53.7 | she was still saying this is the right path and there was no but with hindsight I think we could |
| 1:59.5 | have done it differently. It was almost like she thought she'd got that bit out the way and |
| 2:04.8 | and therefore I think it will jarg of some people that after you have you know the shortest serving |
| 2:10.0 | Prime Minister, the situation that Richard and it's inheriting, there's nothing new to that. |
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