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🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.4 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:11.0 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. I hope the weekend was good to you. |
0:14.8 | A long time ago, especially in political hours all the way back to last Thursday's programme, |
0:19.8 | I asked you if you had five minutes with Liz Truss as my colleagues did on local BBC |
0:24.3 | radio, what you would ask her. Many of you were lighted upon the theme of inquiring |
0:29.5 | why she couldn't change her mind, or believe she was wrong after her Chancellor's mini-budget |
0:34.6 | continued to cause turbulence across the economy and markets. Others of you, of course, |
0:40.1 | said she should stick to her guns, but the new Prime Minister did that. She was digging |
0:44.1 | her heels in those pre-conservative party conference interviews all the way until her interview |
0:50.7 | yesterday with my colleague Laura Koonsberg. Those heels were firmly dug in. No changes |
0:55.1 | would be made and the tax cut for higher earners would remain. That was until this morning, |
1:01.0 | when the Chancellor quasi-quarting was the one to perform the U-turn, made all the more |
1:05.1 | major four mistresses in transigence, saying the government is abandoning its plan to |
1:09.6 | abolish the top rate of income tax for the highest earners as it had become a distraction. |
1:15.2 | Of course this will have been signed off or even ordered by the Prime Minister, changing |
1:19.4 | your mind or performing a U-turn, is it a good sign of leadership or weakness? Have |
1:25.6 | a listen to the very end of what the Chancellor had to say to my colleagues on the today |
1:28.9 | programme earlier. So we've listened to, well it's not just about MPs, it's not about |
1:34.0 | parliamentary votes or Westminster machinations. It's about listening to people in the country |
1:39.5 | and actually understanding where people are. Well you can widen the apology if you like, |
1:43.0 | you can apologise to everybody. And actually having the humour. Do you own apology? |
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