One year on: Are the Tories still Liz Truss' party?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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The News Agents at the Conservative Party Conference: Day 1
The queue to see the former PM stretched right the way through the Midland Hotel in Manchester.
And it wasn’t to see her apologise for the chaos she caused to the economy a year ago. No, these are die hard Trussites. They love her, hate taxes and want to rip up regulation.
She’s the most popular politician here - and that’s a headache for the PM who still hasn’t got his lines straight on major policy announcements that appear utterly muddled.
We discuss the shape of the Conservative Party on Monday of the Manchester conference and speak to International Development minister Andrew Mitchell.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | We've just come out of the Liz Trust growth speech. It was the packed event of the conference so far, a queue that spread right the way across |
| 0:23.6 | the ground floor of the Midland Hotel, up the stairs and right the way down another load of |
| 0:28.8 | stairs too. It took us about eight minutes just to get to the end of the actual queue. Inside the |
| 0:34.2 | room they are talking about growth and they are talking about cutting tax. |
| 0:39.3 | And she has her evangelist believers right here who love her. |
| 0:44.6 | And they think she is still the future of the Conservatives. |
| 0:48.9 | Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 0:53.9 | The News Agents. |
| 0:55.3 | The News Agents It's John. |
| 0:57.7 | It's Emily. |
| 0:58.3 | And it's Lewis. |
| 0:58.9 | And if you hear a bit of background noise, a bit of ambient sound, it's because we're in a |
| 1:03.4 | railway terminus. |
| 1:04.1 | Well, not exactly a railway terminus. |
| 1:05.7 | It was a railway terminus, but it is now the centre for where the Conservative Party |
| 1:09.6 | conference has just got underway. |
| 1:12.0 | Don't mention railways here, John. |
| 1:13.3 | I bet they are wishing it was not a railway service right now. |
| 1:16.8 | Well, the Transport Secretary made a whole speech about the future of transport policy in the UK |
| 1:21.6 | and never mentioned those three words, HS2. |
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