Goodbye Liz, Hello Chaos

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

As all Hell breaks loose in the halls of Westminster, Naomi and Tim break down what on earth has just happened in the UK. Why did Prime Minister Liz Truss resign after only 44 days? Who might take over her post? And what are the consequences of all this chaos for the island of Ireland? We hear commentary from Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, and discuss the potential fallout of the Tories’ chronic instability in the context of current global crises. Don’t miss out on this one! Bonus episodes on https://www.patreon.com/theirishpassport Follow us on Twitter at @PassportIrish

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.5	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay.
0:16.7	Okay.
0:24.6	Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, we are cursed. Listeners, you may not know this, or maybe you've noticed it. Maybe it's all in our heads. But every time we put out an episode of the Irish Passport podcast, something catastrophic happens in the British government. In fact, I think that maybe we should, we should make some kind of deal with Ladbrooks or some kind of
0:56.0	betting agency just to give them a heads up that like, we're putting out an episode tomorrow.
1:01.1	So you should keep your eye on Westminster, actually.
1:03.9	Yeah.
1:05.3	You might not have the same prime minister tomorrow.
1:08.2	That's actually often it.
1:09.9	I think this has happened before.
1:13.9	Listeners, in case you missed that one, that was our War of Independence final installment that we
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