Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a weekly podcast from Politics Home. I'm your host, Alan Tolest,

and seven months on from her exit from Downing Street, with me to discuss the legacy of the

List Trust government, what could have been achieved, and what her role is now, is the Tory MP,

Reynolds-Jai Wardner, who served as Environment Secretary in her cabinet.

Rohan Watt, who wrote his trust's manifesto, led the briefing operation in her number 10 policy

unit, and Dr. Catherine Haddon, program director at the think tank, the Institute for Government.

So, Renal, I'll start with you. Obviously, you joined her cabinet as environment.

How did you first get involved with the trust sort of campaign and what kind of drew you to her at the end of the Boris Johnson administration when there was looking for a new leader?

Well, I mean, I worked with Liz at the Department for International Trade for what, two years.

And I saw her deliver there all the sorts of things that people said couldn't be done.

You know, the continuity program ahead of us leaving the EU was a lot of work.

A lot of people said that was not going to be possible and it was possible.

Getting a number of deals progressed like Australia and New Zealand, kicking off work with

India and the Gulf, CPPPP, which we've just heard the outcome of recently. This is the sort of work

I saw. And she delivered. And so when Boris

resigned, for me, I'd seen someone who I knew could get things done. And for me, it was

natural to support her. And was it also her kind of economic stuff, the kind of the immediate sort of tax cuts bringing down that tax burden?

Was that something that drew to her as well?

Well, certainly, Liz is someone who believes that private enterprise, free markets and so on,

are the way to deliver for people across this country.

And yeah, that's my school of thought on the on the economics that I believe

the Conservative Party should be very proud of. And so it is right that that agenda is attractive to me.

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