Prime ministers’ legacies: Sunak, Truss and Brown
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Rishi Sunak has had an eye on his legacy this week with his flagship smoking ban clearing another hurdle in the Commons – though not without a Tory backlash. Lucy Fisher is joined by Political Fix regulars Miranda Green and Stephen Bush to discuss what Sunak will leave behind if he loses the election. The group also turns its attention to two very different former PMs, as the FT publishes major interviews with both Liz Truss and Gordon Brown this week. Political editor George Parker reveals what he learned during a Norfolk pub lunch with Truss, while the FT’s chief features writer Henry Mance talks about his impressions of Brown during a day in Fife.
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| 0:00.0 | The latest episode of the next five podcast is all about health prevention and vaccines. |
| 0:04.0 | Ice speeds Kate Hashi at G.S.K. |
| 0:06.0 | For every dollar invested in improving health, there's an economic return of two to four dollars. |
| 0:11.8 | Murray Aiken at Icubia Institute for Human Data Science. |
| 0:15.2 | The benefits of adult vaccination are compelling. |
| 0:18.3 | And David Sinclair at the International Longivity Center. |
| 0:21.3 | Preventable conditions amongst those aged 50 to 64 in the UK cost |
| 0:25.1 | 27 billion a year. |
| 0:26.8 | Listen to the full episode of the next five, wherever you get your podcasts. Two former Prime Ministers, two very different proposals for fixing the UK. |
| 0:51.0 | Welcome to Political Fix, your essential insider guide to Westminster from the Financial Times with me Lucy Fisher. Coming up, we're going to be talking about this week's FT profiles of two former UK |
| 0:55.7 | Premiers, Liz Truss and Gordon Brown, and their diagnoses of what's gone wrong in the UK. But first, Rishi Sunak has been driving forward his own pet |
| 1:05.5 | policies. He's pushed ahead with his flagship plans for a smoke-free generation, but not without |
| 1:10.5 | a backlash from his own MPs. |
| 1:13.0 | And to discuss all this, I'm joined in the studio by my F.T. colleagues, Miranda. |
| 1:17.1 | Hi Miranda. |
| 1:18.0 | Hello Lucy. |
| 1:18.9 | And Stephen Bush. |
| 1:19.9 | Hello Lucy. |
| 1:29.0 | So let's kick off talking about the smoking ban, which has passed its first hurdle in the Commons this week, |
| 1:31.9 | despite opposition from Cabinet and Backbenchers. |
| 1:35.8 | Stephen, you've come up with some really fascinating statistics on just how much the country has changed |
| 1:41.1 | when it comes to attitudes towards smoking. |
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