INTERVIEW | Nile Gardiner on Why Liz Truss Failed as Prime Minister of UK

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🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Liz Truss resigned as prime minister of Great Britain on Thursday after just 45 days on the job. It’s possible that her predecessor and fellow Conservative Party member, Boris Johnson, will seize upon the moment and become prime minister of the United Kingdom again, just months after he resigned from the position, according to The Heritage Foundation's Nile Gardiner. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) "There's a lot of speculation that Boris Johnson ... is going to run as a candidate in the Conservative Party leadership race," says Gardiner, a former aide to then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and now director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at Heritage. "Having met Boris on many, many occasions and hosted him here at Heritage, I think that Boris, if he decides to run, would be a very, very powerful candidate." Truss will remain prime minister until a successor is named. Gardiner joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss why Truss failed, the lessons that can be learned from her short tenure, and what is next for Great Britain. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's so much to stake, the Conservatives can turn this around, but they need to have
0:03.8	a leader who's willing to actually stand for an implement conservative principles and
0:08.2	fight for them.
0:09.5	Liz Truss clearly wasn't willing to do that.
0:17.1	This is the Daily Central Podcast for Friday, October 21st, I'm Freeman Allen, and that
0:22.0	was now Gardner, the Director of the Margaret Fatter Center for Freedom at the Heritage
0:26.1	Foundation.
0:27.6	Gardner joins the show today to discuss Liz Truss's resignation as Prime Minister of
0:32.4	Great Britain and what's next for the nation.
0:35.8	Let's go ahead and get to my interview with Nile after this.
0:43.8	Hi, I'm John Carlo Conoparo, and I'm Zach Smith, and we host SCOTUS 101.
0:49.5	It's a podcast where you'll get a breakdown of top cases in the highest court in the land.
0:53.9	We're from some of the greatest legal minds, and of course, get a healthy dose of Supreme
0:58.0	Court trivia.
0:59.0	Want to listen?
1:00.0	Find us wherever you get your podcasts or just head to Heritage.org slash podcasts.
1:08.7	Liz Truss became Prime Minister of Great Britain six weeks ago, but she resigned from her
1:13.6	position on Thursday following many calls for her to do so.
1:17.9	Here with us to explain why she resigned and what's going to happen next in England is
1:23.4	Nile Gardner.
1:24.4	Nile is the Director of the Margaret Fatter Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation,
1:29.2	and formerly worked for former British Prime Minister Margaret Fatter.
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