The Week in 60 Minutes: Meghan returns and Macron vs Truss

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🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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John Connolly, The Spectator's news editor, is joined by deputy editor Freddy Gray; political editor James Forsyth; business editor Martin Vander Weyer; assistant editor Isabel Hardman; contributors Louise Perry and Simon Kuper; historian Robert Service; journalist Anne-Elisabeth Moutet; Times royal correspondent Valentine Low; deputy editor Freddy Gray; political editor James Forsyth; business editor Martin Vander Weyer; and assistant editor Isabel Hardman.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the week in 60 Minutes.
0:13.9	I'm your host this week, John Connolly, the Spectators News Editor.
0:17.3	Coming up on the show, Harry and Megan are back in the UK next week.
0:21.1	Will drama following their wake?
0:22.7	I'll speak to Freddie Gray and Valentine Lowe.
0:25.1	There's just a week left of the Tory leadership contest.
0:28.0	How is the race shaping up?
0:30.0	James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman will discuss.
0:33.1	Liz Truss made headlines last week for saying that the jury is still out
0:35.8	and whether Emmanuel Macron is a friend or foe.
0:38.7	If she becomes P.m., what will British-French relations look like?
0:42.1	I'll be joined by Simon Cooper and Anne Elizabeth Nutei.
0:45.6	Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died this week.
0:48.8	I'll discuss his legacy with Robert's service.
0:51.7	Louise Perry writes in The Spectator this week that it's no longer emasculating
0:54.7	to be a stay-at-home dad. What's changed? She'll join me to discuss. And finally,
1:00.3	why are investment bankers always portrayed as monsters on screen? I'll speak to Martin Van dewea
1:04.7	about the TV show industry and his own time in investment banking.
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