The untold story of Liz Truss's chaotic 49 days in No 10
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The Times
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🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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A year ago today, Liz Truss stood in Downing Street at the start of her premiership promising “action every day”. Over the tumultuous 49 days that followed, her time as prime minister was derailed by a series of U-turns, market shocks and a pervading sense of chaos. We go behind the scenes with Truss's biographer on the shortest ever stay in No 10.
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Guest: James Heale, political correspondent of The Spectator, and co-author of Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of the Unexpected Rise and Rapid Fall of Liz Truss https://timesbookshop.co.uk/out-of-the-blue-9780008605780
Host: Luke Jones.
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| 0:30.4 | She came, she saw, she's carpeted. |
| 0:38.4 | I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability. |
| 0:45.6 | I recognise though, I cannot deliver the mandate |
| 0:49.6 | on which I was elected by the Conservative Party. |
| 0:52.9 | Today it's a full year since Liz Truss stood in Downing Street |
| 1:01.2 | and promised to transform the UK's economy for the better. |
| 1:06.0 | I will take action this day, an action every day to make it happen. |
| 1:11.8 | But how did the chant of Liz for change turn to change for Liz? |
| 1:16.9 | Today, her biographer on the twists, the U turns and the turmoil. |
| 1:21.5 | Everyone I've spoken to has regressed about what went on and most of them are saying |
| 1:26.4 | how on earth could we have someone who we had such faith in? |
| 1:29.1 | How did it end up so badly wrong? |
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