Liz Truss is Prime Minister: what next?

Chopper's Politics

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🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Note: this was recorded on the afternoon of Monday 5th September, before Cabinet announcements.

She beat off stiff competition but Liz Truss is, finally, after "the longest job interview in history", the new leader of the Conservative Party and very shortly the leader of the country.

But now the leadership contest is over and a tsunami of real life troubles is headed for Westminster, how will the next PM fare in choppy waters? And which colleagues will be thrown a life-jacket in the form of a new job, and whose Cabinet careers will collapse like a poorly made sandcastle?

To unpack the latest news and analysis, and to try and understand what’s next, Christopher Hope is joined in the studio by Telegraph colleagues Camilla Tominey and Gordon Rayner.

The first 100 days of PM Liz Truss – in her own words, by Gordon Rayner

How Liz Truss’s Cabinet could look: Predictions for who’s in and who’s out, by Gordon Rayner

Why old friend Therese Coffey is the perfect foil for Liz Truss, by Camilla Tominey

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0:00.0	Coming up on Chopper's Politics.
0:04.0	That was rubbish.
0:05.0	One more go.
0:06.0	Well that's because you're counting with rubbish.
0:08.0	Three two, two, one.
0:10.0	Three, two, one.
0:12.0	Coming up on choppers politics
0:16.5	He didn't like him. You're scared has loved him. I wonder whether
0:20.8	If you're listening to this trust not a bad shout there of course she's
0:24.1	listening Chris good to be. I'm Christopher Hope the
0:29.3	Telegraph Associate Editor for Politics and after one of the longest job interviews in history, as she
0:35.3	put it herself, this trust is a new Tory leader and from tomorrow Prime Minister of Great
0:42.0	Britain and Northern Ireland. It was one of the world's worst
0:45.3	kept secrets that the former Foreign Secretary was probably going to win the
0:50.0	leadership contest with Ritchie Sunak.
0:52.8	But what can we expect from a Liz Trust's Premiership?
0:57.1	What will it mean for the Tory Party and, more importantly, the country?
1:01.5	You and me, as real life is about to enter politics with all the
1:05.0	subtlety of a giant wave crashing on the beach of Westminster, wiping away all
1:09.5	of those carefully constructed ministerial castles made of sand.
1:14.0	Well, my colleague is Kimmila Tomini, our associate editor, and Gordon Rayna, another
1:18.0	associate editor, are with me now in the studio at Telegraph Towers to cheer over the fat.
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