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The News Agents

RISHUFFLE

The News Agents

Global

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

4.15.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Liz Truss and her podium left Downing Street around ten thirty this morning, with a brief nod to bravery and her excellent plans for cutting taxes. Rishi Sunak came in an hour later - new podium - and talked about restoring integrity and professionalism to the office of PM. There were no prizes for guessing who he meant. He also made clear he was there because of Liz Truss mistakes. it sounded pretty brutal - but it put clear water between him and her. And then came the cabinet appointments. And at that moment it felt like back to the future. Many of the old guard are back in their old jobs - including Suella Braverman who quit hers just six days ago...

Planning: Melissa Tutesigensi

Production: Gabriel Radus

Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes

Executive Producer: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0

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0:09.2

This is a global player original podcast.

0:13.1

From my time as Prime Minister, I am more convinced than ever that we need to be bold and confront the challenges that we face.

0:23.1

As the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote,

0:27.0

Oh God, what a way to bow out. That was Liz Truss,

0:31.3

mangling the name of her favourite Roman philosopher, Lucius Seneca,

0:37.3

who gave her the inspiration, she says,

0:40.3

to be bold. The stumble wasn't actually the weirdest part of that speech by any means,

0:47.2

as she stood on the steps of Downing Street for the last time, surrounded by her family.

0:53.1

What was extraordinary was the sense of insistence that she'd done,

0:57.5

she'd got nothing wrong. Just have a listen to the rest of the speech. We simply cannot afford

1:03.6

to be a low growth country where the government takes up an increasing share of our national

1:09.5

wealth and where there are huge divides between

1:12.5

different parts of our country. We need to take advantage of our Brexit freedoms to do things

1:18.1

differently. This means delivering more freedom for our own citizens and restoring power to democratic

1:25.0

institutions. It means lower taxes so people can keep more of the money that they earn.

1:32.7

So there you hear it from the horse's mouth.

1:35.7

She still believes in lower taxes and delivering growth.

1:39.5

She is adamant there that she got nothing wrong.

1:43.4

You have to ask the question, if you had the chance

1:45.4

to do it all again, would you do it all again the same way? But yeah, for many people, I guess the

1:50.8

fridge magnet quote will be the thing that lasts in the mind. It did feel quite wiki quotes,

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