Liz Truss is Prime Minister
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
New Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to overturn Tory orthodoxies in place since this long-serving government was elected in 2010. What will the consequences be and what are the implications for Labour?
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm going to Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards. |
| 0:33.3 | Thank you so much for tuning in, wherever you are in the UK, and indeed around the rest of the world. |
| 0:40.0 | And, well, these podcasts are coming thick and fast at the moment. |
| 0:43.2 | There were two last week, the special of the last show at the Edinburgh Festival. |
| 0:49.3 | It's already, it's funny, the Edinburgh Festival. |
| 0:51.2 | It's very intense while you're there, sort of cocooned in a |
| 0:54.9 | world of frenzied activity. And then very quickly, it kind of fades, and you can't really |
| 1:02.4 | remember much about it. I was trying to make some notes about what we did in Edinburgh. |
| 1:06.9 | And I thought, what, what happened that day? You know, so, there were only to you a short time ago. |
| 1:12.5 | Anyway, you had that one and then another one after that, a kind of question time special. |
| 1:17.5 | And now it's the regular. |
| 1:19.4 | But if you're on Patreon, you're going to get another podcast this week, |
| 1:22.9 | the September bonus on the relationship between Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell, the last of the current |
| 1:29.0 | series of the relationship between prime ministers and their chosen special confidant. And by the way, |
| 1:35.8 | it's a really interesting question as to whether Liz Truss has got an equivalent of |
| 1:42.3 | Alistair Campbell or Nick Timothy and Theresa May, you know, for a brief |
| 1:48.9 | period before in that Shakespearean moment after the 2017 election, she was forced to sack |
| 1:55.9 | her two chosen confidants of which Nick Timothy was won. Has Liz Truss got that equivalent? Harold Wilson |
| 2:03.3 | and Marcia Williams, they all feature in the bonus podcasts on the Patreon version of rock and roll |
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