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The Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the twice weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thanks so much for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and indeed around the

rest of the world. And as ever, we've got a lot to cram in in our time together. If it's okay,

God, did you hear my phone? It just went. You know, I've been texted all over the place. People are

so excited about what we've

got to cram in in our time together. Yeah, if it's okay with all of you, I will reflect on what I

consider to be the significance of the Liz Truss intervention, the return of Liz Truss.

By the way, what self-confidence the senior Tories have? It's so interesting to compare with the

sort of nervous, cautious, timidity of labour. And these people who've presided over chaos,

Lord Frosty Frost, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, all bouncing back as if they are profits leading us to the promised land.

And it's everybody else's fault that there's chaos.

I mean, incredible self-confidence.

And in a way, I have to say, I think self-confidence in politics is a virtue, actually,

not perhaps to the scale we have seen with that particular

trio and others. Just incredible. Anyway, but I'm going to reflect on the significance,

not so much the personality of trust, which has been much mocked since her various interventions back again

on the political stage. So yeah, and there's some great questions from you, some great questions

about the discussion I have with Christian Walmire about trains and what it tells us more widely about the UK. Why can't we run a

train service? Such a fundamental and tantalising question because we would all benefit from a proper

train service. All of us in the economy. It's one of the reasons for low productivity.

So some great questions

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