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Coffee House Shots

How long has Liz Truss got left?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Isabel Hardman, James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson discuss the appropriate units of time in which to measure the remainder of the Prime Minister’s tenure...

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:10.0

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0:18.0

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, Spectators' Daily Politics podcast.

0:23.0

I'm Isabelle Harbin and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson.

0:27.0

Well, is Liz Truss going to survive until the end of the weekend, the end of next week,

0:32.0

the end of this month? This morning, the new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt did a broadcast round

0:38.0

in which he said this.

0:40.0

There were mistakes. It was a mistake when we're going to be asking for difficult decisions

0:45.0

across the board on tax and spending to cut the rate of tax paid by the very wealthiest.

0:51.0

It was a mistake to fly blind and to do these forecasts without giving people the confidence

0:57.0

of the Office for Budget Responsibility saying that the sums add up.

1:01.0

And the Prime Minister has recognised that. That's why I'm here.

1:04.0

And what we need now is for me to show Parliament and the markets that we can make

1:11.0

our tax and spending plans add up. That's what I'm going to do.

1:15.0

And we will have some very difficult decisions ahead.

1:19.0

James, what do you think the impact of that was?

1:22.0

So Jeremy Hunt, tone on his morning broadcast round,

1:25.0

was very different from Liz Truss' press conference yesterday.

1:28.0

Liz Truss' press conference yesterday was essentially saying we've had to lose the Chancellor

1:32.0

and we've had to increase corporation tax, but the implication was that everything else stayed the same.

1:36.0

Jeremy Hunt was saying, no, no, no, taxes are going to go up and spending is going to be cut.

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