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Oh God, What Now?

PurgaTory – with guest David Gauke

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

As the Truss micro-Government twists on a hook of its own making, we take a taxi to an anti-growth North London podcast studio to examine a week of Tory torment, conference catastrophes and 33% Labour leads. Are the Conservatives on the verge of an actual extinction event? Former Justice Secretary and Conservative exile David Gauke is our special guest.  “Can you imagine anyone, in any pub, going on about the Anti-Growth Coalition?” – Ian Dunt “It seems that Truss genuinely doesn’t think she even needs a democratic mandate to do what she does…” – Ros Taylor  “Her authority is extraordinarily low and she doesn’t have any political capital at all.” – David Gauke “Well done, the first thing you've done in your whole administration is tank the economy.” – Ian Dunt  Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant producer Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Theme music by Cornershop. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to O-God What Now for Week 2 of Trustafut. I'm Dorian Linske.

0:12.6

For any new listeners joining the podcast out of a mixture of curiosity and chardenfreude,

0:16.3

we get together every week with a special guest to analyse the biggest stories and politics

0:20.0

and milk them for cheap laughs. Glad you could join us.

0:23.0

Today the news is so juicy that we're going to get stuck right in and postpone icebreaker

0:26.2

chat about other stories until later in the episodes. Let's quickly meet the members of our

0:30.2

anti-growth coalition. Ian Dunt is a columnist for the eye. Hi Ian. Hello. Hello. Have you been

0:35.8

suppressing growth this week? Yes, yes, in almost every way. Ross Taylor is a writer and

0:40.0

podmasters contributing editor. Hi, Ross. Hello. And I guess this week also joined us for the

0:44.8

last Tory party conference in 2022 and 21. He was formerly Justice Secretary MP for South

0:49.4

West Hertfordshire and he's currently a lawyer and columnist for the new statesman. David

0:53.1

Gorg, welcome back. Hello. Good to be back. I hope we have enough to talk him out. I think we will.

0:59.6

Good, good. Liz Truss has just delivered her conference speech and we'll be talking about that

1:03.5

and why this year's conference felt a little like a ghost town. Then we'll try to make sense

1:07.6

of Trussonomics. Does she have a mandate for such a radical platform and can she even explain it?

1:12.4

And in the extra bit for Patreon backers from the ladies not for turning to the European Super League

1:16.5

implosion, we'll look at U-turns and ask why they're considered so toxic. First this week, the Tory

1:22.8

conference began with a whimper as Polesport Labour up to 33 points ahead, 38 points in the Red

1:28.0

Wall according to Redfield Wilton. Then quasi-quarteng announced that he was dropping his catastrophically

1:32.8

unpopular plan to axe the top rate of income tax. A U-turn that the worst person in Britain,

1:37.5

Swela Bravenman, blamed on a coup. We get it, Poiteng said, but do they?

1:42.6

Thank you. So let's start with the big question. Is Liz Truss' premiership over before it's

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