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🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Liz Truss is back to make the case for her tax-cutting agenda. Does she have a point, and is anyone listening? Matt is joined by journalist Katy Balls, pollster Patrick English and economists Paul Johnson and Mark Littlewood.
Plus columnists Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves discuss Boris Johnson, petrol prices and the death of satirist Kit Hesketh-Harvey.
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0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Webbox podcast. I'm Matt Charlie, bringing you the best of my times |
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0:23.9 | times.radio, Matt at times.radio. Particularly, thank you so, so many of you got in touch |
0:28.5 | about last week's interview with Neil Kinnock, which has been absolutely fine. We've had |
0:32.8 | one of the biggest weeks in ages on the podcast. So many of you have been downloading it. |
0:36.1 | So welcome along. If you've only just discovered the Webbox podcast, where have you been? Leave |
0:40.2 | us a review if you like. It'll help with the mumbo jumbo charts. Right. Talk to the mumbo |
0:44.1 | jumbo. Coming up on today's episode is Liz Trust, right? Or is she long, long, long? |
0:49.8 | We have got a cracking panel looking at the former Prime Ministers, returned to the political |
0:54.1 | fray Katie Balls, his interviewer, plus we will hear from two rival economists, Paul Johnson |
0:59.1 | from the IFS and Mark Littlewood from the IEA to pick through her claims. And exactly does |
1:05.3 | she have a point and is she the right person to be making it? Before that, though, as ever, |
1:09.3 | on a Monday, we kick off with Liz and Rachel. The colonists would Libby Raichy, Libby Purvis |
1:15.6 | and Rachel Silvestre on times radio. And we say very good morning to join in the studio |
1:21.9 | of Rachel Silvestre. Morning, Matt. I'm beaming in from outer spaces, Libby Purvis. Morning, |
1:25.9 | Libby. Morning. Whereabouts are you? Actually, in outer space, of course, Libby. Oh, well, |
1:32.3 | might as well be. Actually, it's a nice sunny day. I'm at home. I'm just about to leave |
1:35.8 | home for London. Love it. I'm sitting here so that I can wear my special headphones |
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