The Liz Truss's Big Gamble One
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson
BBC
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
A bonus episode, as Nick tells the extraordinary inside story of how Liz Truss gambled her premiership on a dramatic challenge to decades of orthodoxy.
Transcript
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| 0:41.0 | Now I hope you enjoy this podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello, welcome to Well, not quite political thinking. |
| 0:47.0 | Our normal interview programme is off air at the moment, but I thought you might like to hear a documentary I was making |
| 0:54.0 | with Jack Fenwick and Stephanie Mick Garff and edited by Charles Edwards. |
| 0:59.0 | It's the story, the extraordinary, I think the fascinating story of what we've called Liz Truss' big gamble. |
| 1:07.0 | Not the story of her premiership, but the particular story that brought it to an end. |
| 1:14.0 | The decision she took to try and tear up the economic policies the last 20, arguably 30 years, to do things her way. |
| 1:23.0 | Except, well, listen to the story. |
| 1:28.0 | Why didn't anyone see it coming? |
| 1:31.0 | That was the question the Queen asked after the bank's crashed. |
| 1:36.0 | She's no longer around to ask the same question about another economic calamity which occurred in the days after her death. |
| 1:45.0 | Liz Truss' big economic gamble. |
| 1:49.0 | It's an honour to be elected as leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party. |
| 1:57.0 | The moment she won the leadership competition, they were never going to let her stay. |
| 2:02.0 | I have a bold plan to grow the economy through tax cuts and reform. |
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