Ten days to save Liz Truss

The News Agents

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News, Daily News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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A senior Conservative MP has told The News Agents Liz Truss is facing a critical moment and may have just ten days to save her job. Party discipline appears to be crumbling before our eyes. Ministers are openly touting policies they favour or reject and some are even telling each other to quietly go away. There is a restlessness at the Conservative Party Conference which tells you things haven’t really gone back to normal. And may not ever. We speak to a Cabinet minister who wants his rebel colleagues to shut up. And to a former minister who says he’s propelled to speak truth to power when he sees a bad policy. And tomorrow they all have to coalesce behind the leader as Liz Truss gives her keynote speech. How’s that looking? Producer: Gabriel Radus Planning: Melissa Tutesigensi Video: Rory Symon Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes Executive Producer: Dino Sofos For exclusive daily videos from The News Agents visit Global Player: https://www.globalplayer.com/videos/brands/news-agents/the-news-agents/ The News Agents is a Global Player Original and a Persephonica Production.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:08.1	This is a global player original podcast.
0:16.8	Day three of the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.
0:22.6	The waves gently lapping in the canal.
0:25.6	The breeze gently billowing.
0:31.6	The birds, calmly fluttering.
0:35.6	And the leaves browned now from the sun,
0:39.5	gently falling to the ground.
0:42.7	Calm?
0:43.8	Not quite.
0:45.7	Wait till you hear this.
0:47.2	One of the key rebels,
0:49.5	he would say conduit,
0:51.3	in getting that you turn through,
0:53.9	has just told us that Liz Truss is hanging by a thread.
0:59.3	I think she has this opportunity in the next 10 days to reverse some of the problems of the last 10 days.
1:05.7	So 10 days to save her leadership, what you seem to be saying. It's a snappy headline,
1:10.4	I think it is obvious to say that, you know, there is a limited period of time
1:15.8	to turn things round from what's been, you know, a choppy, difficult start. That was the former
1:21.4	transport secretary, Grant Shaps. A serving cabinet minister, Robert Buckland, tells the newsagents STFU, well, not the F, but
1:31.2	certainly to shut up. Welcome to the news agents. The news agents with Emily Maitliss.
1:41.3	Why would you remember our Pizza Express birthday and being at home?
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