Is Truss back on track?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Isabel Hardman speaks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls.
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| 0:23.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, |
| 0:25.0 | Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Isabelle Hardman, and I'm joined in Birmingham by Kate Bulls and James Forsyth. |
| 0:33.0 | Well, we've just come out of Liz Truss' speech to the Conservative Party conference. |
| 0:38.0 | James, what did you think? |
| 0:40.0 | I thought the speech, and this is not about how I bargain what's happened this week, |
| 0:43.0 | but I thought the speech was the best moment of the week for Liz Truss, |
| 0:46.0 | which is she had, it wasn't a spectacular speech, |
| 0:50.0 | but it had a clear theme that she wants to go for growth. |
| 0:53.0 | It was very much her political credo, which is all about freedom. |
| 0:57.0 | And I thought she, the whole clearly kind of were willing to have to succeed. |
| 1:03.0 | There was that protest. I mean, that got the whole going a bit as well. |
| 1:07.0 | And I think Truss, she made her argument, which was, as Kate was saying, |
| 1:13.0 | it would be last night, which was that she wants to take on this kind of anti-growth coalition. |
| 1:18.0 | I mean, there are two immediate challenges for her. |
| 1:22.0 | One is, how are you actually going to get this growth going? |
| 1:25.0 | You want to say that your free priorities are growth, growth, growth, |
| 1:27.0 | at a time when the economy looks like it is slowing down. |
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