LIVE SHOW: Rishi Sunak Self-Combusts
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The Tories are in freefall and face electoral annihilation - and now a panicked Rishi Sunak is desperately thrashing around, now throwing net zero promises under a bus. Where does he think this will end for him?
We're joined by Adam Bienkov from Byline Times and Leo Murray, the co-director of climate campaign group Possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, my word. So about the fact, well, this is the latest we've ever been. Blame the Prime Minister, |
| 0:15.8 | quite literally, blame the Prime Minister for everything at this particular point. We were delayed |
| 0:20.2 | because Rishi Sonic has just done quite the press conference. I think you'll all agree. Where to |
| 0:26.8 | even begin, we've thankfully got some fantastic guests who can make sense of what we have just |
| 0:32.4 | heard from Rishi Sonic. Now, this was a long-trailed speech, I suppose, which is about net zero. |
| 0:42.5 | So people actually thought he was going to call an early election, which given his about 20 points |
| 0:46.1 | behind in the Inputable's, admittedly would have been quite the move. Now, what I think we're |
| 0:53.9 | going to talk about today is, obviously, later we'll talk about the politics of this. We've |
| 0:57.7 | got Adam Bienkov, he's a brilliant political journalist in violent times, to make sense of a speech |
| 1:02.8 | that Rishi Sonic has just made, which is scaling back Britain's climate commitment. So this is a |
| 1:08.3 | desperate panic that the government is currently in. And what that means is, well, the future |
| 1:22.7 | existence of human civilization, as far as Britain's commitment, has been thrown under a boss |
| 1:26.8 | for the perceived short-term partisan ends of the Conservative Party. Now, I just want to quickly |
| 1:31.5 | just do a clip from, because I think this is important context. And this is from Liz Truss |
| 1:36.0 | yesterday. Liz Truss, you may remember, is Prime Minister of 49 days, crashed the economy and |
| 1:40.8 | the Conservatives' electoral fortunes. Now, you might think after that, she might just disappear |
| 1:45.2 | from public life. Oh, no, she's trying to fight for the battle, the future, the heart and soul of |
| 1:50.0 | the Conservative Party. And I would say she's winning. Let's just hear what she said. |
| 1:53.1 | This means slowing the rates of increased benefits and tougher work requirements. It means raising |
| 1:58.4 | the retirement age further. And in the energy sector, we need to get on with fracking and abolish |
| 2:04.5 | the windfall tax. We should diverge properly from the EU, so we can increase competitiveness |
| 2:11.2 | in areas like financial services. And finally, we should, as many other Western countries |
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