The U.K.’s Actual Leadership Crisis
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🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The United Kingdom is saddled with an energy crisis, a pandemic-weary national health service, and continued economic fallout from Brexit. For now, the country is observing an official mourning period, after losing its longest-serving monarch. But soon it will be time for King Charles and newly-installed Prime Minister Liz Truss to show what they’ll do to lead the U.K. through what’s expected to be a grim winter.
Guest: Charlotte Ivers, political correspondent for Times Radio, and columnist for the Sunday Times.
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| 0:00.0 | There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because |
| 0:05.4 | I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5. |
| 0:08.0 | But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period. |
| 0:14.2 | And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance. |
| 0:18.8 | Join in every sip with Red Carp's Now Back at Starbucks. |
| 0:33.3 | If you wanted to, you could spend a good chunk of your day watching live streams of what |
| 0:37.8 | exactly is going on with the British Royal family right now. |
| 0:41.6 | Ever since the Queen died, at the age of 96, a strict order of ceremonies and speeches |
| 0:47.0 | has started playing out. |
| 0:48.7 | This is something that has been planned, it's no exaggeration to say for decades. |
| 0:53.2 | There's an entire unit in the Cabinet Office of the Knight of Kingdom Government called |
| 1:00.7 | the Bridges department and that of course refers to the fact that the code names for these |
| 1:04.8 | operations are London Bridges down in the case of the Queen, you also have fourth bridges |
| 1:09.8 | down in the case of other members of the senior royal family. |
| 1:15.2 | Charlotte Eivers is a columnist for the Sunday Times. |
| 1:18.4 | When she says the British government is prepared for this moment, she means you can go online |
| 1:22.6 | and find out exactly which minute the Queen's coffin is going to leave one location for |
| 1:29.0 | another. |
| 1:30.0 | This has all been planned to pinpoint precision and we are now seeing the outcome of that |
| 1:35.8 | really. |
| 1:42.1 | Charlotte has followed along as Prince Charles was proclaimed King, live on TV. |
| 1:46.4 | The first time that's ever happened. |
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