Is Truss unstoppable?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Cindy Yu speaks to Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth.
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| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James O'Cythe and Fraser Nelson. |
| 0:25.5 | So last night was the first official regional Tory party husting. |
| 0:29.6 | Well, Liz Truss and Richie Sienaick faced up against each other again, |
| 0:32.4 | but this time in leads in front of Tory members. Fraser, what did you make of the session? |
| 0:37.5 | I thought this was Liz Truss's strongest performance yet, |
| 0:40.8 | and at times I was thinking she's almost irreconisable from the startled scared figure that we saw |
| 0:46.9 | on the very first debate. I remember sitting here that night thinking she's dropping out of |
| 0:51.6 | his race, she looks scared, she looked unprepared, and she was even saying in the second debate how |
| 0:58.0 | she was bad at this sort of format. I'm not sure she'd be saying that last night, she was |
| 1:03.3 | revving up the audience, she adapted to the local format particularly well. I mean, talking about |
| 1:08.5 | her connections with Leeds, talking about Don Revy, you know, the football manager, and even though |
| 1:15.0 | it was Richie Sienaick's home turf in Safari, he's a Yorkshire MP and Liz is now a born |
| 1:20.4 | again Londoner with Norfolk constituency. I thought she managed to make good of her local |
| 1:26.8 | connections effectively, and I thought, you know, Richie Sienaick was good, but she was better and |
| 1:33.6 | left me wondering if she is now unstoppable. When you look at the bookmakers' odds right now, |
| 1:39.7 | she's now I think 85% chance of winning to Sienaick's 15% chance. Now, the bookmakers can be |
| 1:47.0 | wildly wrong, they normally are. When they go to 90% chance, you know, they're almost certainly |
| 1:51.6 | wrong. But you now begin to get people saying, you should Richie Sienaick, now drop out of this race |
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