In Liz We Truss?
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BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Can the embattled Prime Minister Liz Truss rally the support of her party? It's been another difficult week of U-turns for the Conservatives as new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt takes an axe to Kwasi Kwarteng's previous mini-budget announcements, and the PM faces Labour Leader Keir Starmer at PMQs. What can the Prime Minister do to win back the support of both Conservative MPs and the public? Also, the Scottish Government lays out its economic plans for an independent Scotland, from borders to currency.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, you're listening to Political BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.1 | It's 21 minutes past two. On Wednesday |
| 0:22.7 | the 19th of October, I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow and today I'm joined by. I'm |
| 0:28.7 | Raj Seep Sandu, a journalist based in Westminster. And I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish |
| 0:33.5 | Parliament. Hello both. Hello. Hello. So the astute amongst you will realise that we're |
| 0:39.6 | doing this on a Wednesday and not on a Thursday. And the reason, we have various reasons to be |
| 0:46.0 | honest for doing it today. I have no idea what day it is at the best of times right now. But a couple of |
| 0:50.6 | them where Prime Minister's questions have just not long finished. |
| 0:54.3 | And we thought with the kind of week that it's been in politics, |
| 0:57.9 | it would be sensible to get an episode out pretty quickly after that happened |
| 1:01.9 | because things are changing on a sort of hour to hour, if not day-to-day basis at the moment. |
| 1:07.7 | Oh, yeah, changing rapidly. |
| 1:09.5 | I mean, Monday morning, I couldn't really get through |
| 1:12.3 | my morning without news happening like, felt like every hour. Like something new happening. And of course, |
| 1:18.4 | Monday was the day. It was kind of Jeremy Hunt's proper first day in the job as Chancellor. |
| 1:24.7 | And he chose to basically set fire to everything Liz Trusts. |
| 1:29.4 | Well, sorry, most of what she had announced. |
| 1:32.9 | The previous three weeks ago under quasi-quarting in the mini-budget that has caused so much chaos. |
| 1:39.1 | And basically the only things really left standing from that mini-budget was allowing bankers' bonuses cap to be lifted, |
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