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Coffee House Shots

Is Trussonomics really dead?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Cindy Yu talks to Katy Balls and James Heale about the former Prime Minister's lunch with her loyalists at Ma La Sichuan, and whether her ideas might be mounting a comeback.  

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:10.0

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0:19.0

Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of Coffee Health Shots.

0:22.0

It's Trussonomics really dead.

0:24.0

Though Liz Truss and many of her loyalists are now back on the back benches,

0:28.0

there may be something of an attempt to revise her legacy, or at least to show up its merits.

0:32.0

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and James Hill to discuss.

0:36.0

Now Katie, you wrote about this in your Times column this week.

0:38.0

To start with, can you set the scene of this reunion of Truss and a few of her loyalists

0:42.0

in a Chinese restaurant in Westminster just before Christmas?

0:46.0

What were they talking about?

0:48.0

It's a site that would have alarmed any government whip.

0:52.0

This is a few weeks before Christmas in the far corner of Marla.

0:56.0

This is a good Chinese restaurant.

0:58.0

Highly recommend to our dad.

1:00.0

We are both regulars, Cindy.

1:02.0

Sat Liz Truss.

1:04.0

We have two former members of her cabinet.

1:06.0

And also one of her former close-aids, who had worked as a part of entry private secretary.

1:10.0

Now you could say there's nothing unusual about old colleagues meeting up.

1:16.0

We've all been there having some dim sum chewing the issues of the day.

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