Liz Truss's Speech

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Liz Truss delivers her first leader’s speech at Tory conference. Adam and Chris are joined by Charlotte Ivers, political correspondent at Times Radio, to unpack the PM’s economic plan, what she means by the ‘anti-growth coalition’, and what happened when protesters interrupted the speech. Liz Truss arrived to the sound of M People's 90s hit Moving on Up - Adam speaks to the group’s founder Mike Pickering, who isn’t happy about it. Today’s Newscast is hosted by Adam Fleming and political editor Chris Mason. This episode was made by Chris Flynn with Miranda Slade and Madeleine Drury. The technical producer was Gareth Jones and the assistant editor was Alison Gee.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.2	Hello, so we've had Liz Trusses first ever party conference speech as Prime Minister.
0:09.9	It was a pretty short one and so it's certainly going to be in the record books for that.
0:14.8	Before hand, the briefing we got was that she was going to say that with great change
0:18.5	comes great disruption and you just have to pay that as a price for reforming the country.
0:24.0	We were told that she was going to walk on stage to a 90s pop classic.
0:30.4	So today's newscast contributors, I asked them for posterity to predict what the 90s
0:36.8	banger would be.
0:38.6	Here is Charlotte Ivers from Times Radio.
0:40.9	To be honest, my brain is a bit collapse at this stage in the game.
0:43.7	All I could really think of is things could only get better than D-reams song, but I've
0:47.9	just done some googling.
0:48.9	I googled the words 90 songs.
0:50.7	I'm going to go for Worsefuls by TLC because we know that Liz Truss loves a girl group.
0:56.0	Chris Mason's prediction went a little bit like this.
0:58.4	Yes, hello from the hall itself.
1:00.2	Here's my little voice note about this 90s classic though at all we're going to be getting.
1:04.2	What's going to be?
1:05.2	Tell you what, there's so much black humor at the moment.
1:07.0	People are talking about things can only get better, the D-ream anthem that was associated
1:10.6	with new labour.
1:11.6	It's not going to be that, is it?
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