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The Liz Truss interview: 'I didn't get everything right'

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Today Liz Truss has broken her silence, giving her first broadcast interview since leaving No.10 to SpectatorTV. Was she denied a ‘realistic chance’ at success? 

Fraser Nelson speaks to Katy Balls and Kate Andrews. 

Produced by Oscar Edmondson. 

You can watch the full interview now on SpectatorTV: https://www.youtube.com/@SpectatorTV 

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:09.8

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0:17.0

Welcome to Coffee House Shots, a spectator's daily politics podcast.

0:21.0

I'm Fraser Nutsson, and a few days ago Katie Balls and I interviewed Liz Truss, her first

0:26.1

interview since leaving number 10. It's now been released on Spectator TV and Katie joins

0:31.3

me to discuss it now with Kate Andres. Now, Katie asked her whether she was really the most

0:37.4

plausible person to be making the low-tax pro-growth argument, which now seems to be what she's

0:43.6

dedicating her political career towards.

0:46.4

Nobody would be more delighted than me, Katie. If there were lots of other people coming forward

0:50.9

of making these arguments, I would be more than delighted to have other people go out there

0:58.4

and make the case. But the fact is there aren't enough people making the case full stop.

1:04.3

So Katie, have we just heard the first of latest iteration of Liz Truss, the person who basically says

1:10.7

I tried to cut taxes, but the blob wouldn't let me.

1:14.0

Well, I think it's quite clear this is a new phase in Liz Truss's career and this interview

1:18.5

comes after that 4,000-word article in the Sunni Tategraph, where she began to outline some of

1:23.6

these arguments related to the OBR, what happened in the pension markets, that she now, after,

1:29.6

I think, what was been a period of three months relative silence, now does want to make a voice

1:34.2

heard. And because Liz Truss was saying, she doesn't interview in further detail,

1:37.6

lots of people have gone touch with her since she left 10, Downing Street, and said, you know,

1:40.8

you're writing your diagnosis. And I think from everything she said, she thinks that she has

1:45.4

diagnosed the correct problem, thinks the execution lacked finesse, I think that's one way of putting it,

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