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🗓️ 21 October 2022
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0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
0:09.2 | Today, the end of the Liz Trust era, all 45 days of it, and what on earth happens now? |
0:16.0 | It's a very grey and fairly wet Thursday morning, and I'm stood right next to one of Parliament's main gates. |
0:34.0 | I've just got off my bike and back to push my bike through after showing my past to the police on the gate. |
0:38.0 | And once I'm at my desk, I'm going to sit down for what promises to be another extraordinary day in UK politics. |
0:50.0 | Peter Walker is a political correspondent with the Guardian. |
0:52.0 | And on Thursday morning, he was taking us through what it's like right now, covering British politics, after Wednesday's chaos. |
0:58.0 | On Wednesday, we started off with a Prime Minister's questions, which was seen as make or break from this trust. |
1:04.0 | Mr Speaker, I have been very clear that I am Mr Speaker, that I am sorry. |
1:12.0 | We then had the suspension of one of her key aids, and then we had possibly the most extraordinary thing, which was Svella Brotherman, |
1:20.0 | the Home Secretary who'd been in the job for precisely 43 days, stepped down. |
1:24.0 | The incident involved Svella Brotherman, sharing secure information that she shouldn't do on a private phone. |
1:34.0 | And stay when Tom, the chaos got more and more. Later in the afternoon, we had a debate on whether to frack in England, which was a Labour one. |
1:42.0 | And the government whips initially said it was what they call a Constance motion, meaning any Tory MP who voted against it would lose a whip. |
1:51.0 | Could he please confirm whether that is the case of the law? |
1:55.0 | I thank the Honourable Lady for that question, and that is a matter for party managers, and I am not a party manager. |
2:03.0 | But then they announced the chamber, it was no longer a Constance motion, and then there were these absurd scenes in which some wavering conservative MPs were allegedly almost physically dragged into the correct voting lobby, |
2:15.0 | whether by ministers or whips is not quite clear. I think it's a shambles in a disgrace. I think it is utterly appalling. |
2:22.0 | And then at about 1.15 in the morning, we got a message saying that it was a Constance motion after all, and the minister who said it wasn't a Constance motion, got it wrong. |
2:31.0 | And so there's a prospect of a dozen or so conservative MPs facing a discipline in action, including potentially losing the whip. |
2:39.0 | And this is all in the second month of Liv's Trust being in power, and we genuinely don't know how much longer she's going to be here. |
2:47.0 | I mean, could today be the final day? Who knows? Basically no one knows. But I'm about to go in, log on my computer, and see where we are. |
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