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Political Fix

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Political Fix

Financial Times

Politics, News, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

With energy bills set to soar from October, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak faced mounting questions about how they would help struggling families, yet neither of the candidates to be the new prime minister has set out detailed plans. We examine the foreign secretary's tax proposals, whether they will address the economic turbulence ahead and if Whitehall needs a new ethics adviser.

Presented by Sebastian Payne, with chief political correspondent Jim Pickard, political correspondent Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe and special guest economist Gerard Lyons.

Produced by Anna Dedhar and Howie Shannon. The sound engineers were Breen Turner and Carlos San Juan. 


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0:00.0

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0:10.4

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0:20.0

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0:26.0

Find out more at EDFenergy.com.

0:56.0

That all sounds a bit too good to be true.

1:26.0

About where there needs to be an ethics advisor in Whitehall.

1:30.0

To analyse, I'm delighted to be joined by our Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard,

1:34.0

Political Correspondent Jasmine Kamensleshi and Special Guest Gerard Lyons,

1:38.0

Chief Economic Structures and Netwell, a wealth management company.

1:42.0

Welcome, Jim Jasmine and Gerard, it's great to have you back.

1:46.0

Let's begin with the overall state jasmine of the tour leadership race

1:52.0

until we get our next Prime Minister.

1:56.0

This week it feels as if the dynamics have gone from is Liz Truss going to win

2:00.0

to what she's going to do when she becomes Prime Minister.

2:04.0

The race feels a little bit stagnant now, as you said,

2:08.0

there's a sense that we all think it's going to be Truss who wins.

2:12.0

Obviously Rishi Sunak is appearing on any media outlet that will have him

2:16.0

and he's saying it's all to play for, but realistically it isn't.

2:20.0

You know, he will be in cabinet who's going to be leading policy.

2:24.0

I think what is quite striking, though, is that given that we all assume

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