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Liz Truss Threatens Starmer with Legal Action

Planet Normal

Theodora Louloudis

Society & Culture, News, Telegraph, Planet Normal, Current Affairs, News And Current Affairs

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary


It’s a new year and the rocket returns with a blast to take on tax rises, economy worries and a grooming scandal, but what do your co-pilots make of 2025’s headlines so far?


Liam questions why Labour won’t launch a national inquiry into the grooming gangs, whilst Allison thinks the country’s leading party are too hung up with promoting diversity as a strength to investigate any wrongdoing.


Strapping into the rocket for the first voyage of the year is Economist Andrew Lilico who explains exactly why he thinks Former PM Liz Truss didn’t crash the economy with her mini budget.


And there are results from the great ‘Planet Normal Christmas Weigh in’....


Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |

Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |

Read Allison Elon Musk has ripped the cloak of deceit off one of Britain’s most disgusting scandals: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/07/elon-musk-has-ripped-cloak-of-deceit-off-britain-scandal/ |

Read Andrew Did Liz Truss Crash The Economy?: https://europe-economics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Did-Liz-Truss-Crash-the-Economy-Final.pdf |

Read Sentencing Remarks: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/sentencing-remarks-r-v-dogar-others.pdf |

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0:00.0

The woodwork talked to you here. It's that link, that sense of history. And Kinnard has one

0:07.8

of the finest, if not the finest lecture program, but they get such a cross-section of speakers

0:12.9

that are so interesting. You always come home as a souvenir with some knowledge. It's simple.

0:18.6

It's never, never land. It's out of this world. It's sea-going fantasy land. It's simple. It's never-neverland. It's out of this world. It's sea-going fantasy land.

0:23.2

It's fabulous. You'll never forget how Kuhnard makes you feel. Visit kuhnard.com.

0:33.6

The default position of many of our broadcasters is deflection and denial.

0:43.7

I don't think that those are properly understood as in the main, at least, and perhaps at all, as a response to the mini budget.

0:51.4

Whereas I think at the time, policy makers thought that it was.

0:55.3

That was just wrong.

1:03.9

This is going to cause a huge ruction. And why is it that Labour won't allow this public inquiry?

1:13.3

There aren't many more stories, more worthy of national headlines, are there, than co-pilot Halligan versus co-pilot Pearson.

1:18.9

Welcome back to a whole new year of Planet Normal, the telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson.

1:26.6

Hello.

1:28.9

And me, Liam Halligan.

1:35.2

While 2025 has started with a banko pilot, the Christmas decorations are barely down,

1:41.3

and yet the season of political goodwill, such as it was, is well and truly over. A new Delta poll survey suggests that with Labour having taken office only in July, some 69% of voters think the UK's heading in the wrong direction, and a third no less think that Stama won't be Prime Minister by the end of this new year.

1:56.2

There have been a series of unforced errors, from the controversial removal of winter fuel payments to steep

2:01.5

incoming tax rises and now the so-called grooming gang scandal has exploded after safeguarding

2:08.3

minister Jess Phillips failed to explain adequately why she won't agree to a proper inquiry into

2:14.5

the multiple rapes and depraved abuses of predominantly white girls in so many northern

2:20.6

towns, disproportionately at the hands of men of Pakistani origin. Much of the public is quite

2:27.3

rightly incensed, a groundswell of utter outrage that you captured Alison in what, if I may say

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