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Red Lines

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Red Lines

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4.674 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Following the Conservative Party conference, Mark Carruthers speaks to Dominic Grieve, Kate Devlin, Kelly Beaver and Enda McClafferty.

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0:00.0

We've had about three hours to try to work out if Liz Truss's big conference speech this morning in Birmingham has managed to steady the ship.

0:07.1

She's been Prime Minister for four weeks and she never had a honeymoon period, to be honest.

0:11.8

She calls herself a disruptor and her tenure has certainly been disruptive.

0:16.8

No doubt about that, but probably not quite in the way she meant it to be.

0:20.2

And the remarkable question that people have been asking at this week's Tory conference is this.

0:24.7

One month into the job, can she survive? Can she Kate?

0:28.2

I think if you're a Tory MP at the minute, there's just no good answer to that question.

0:33.1

They do, a lot of them feel incredibly stuck.

0:36.3

Interesting, I was talking to a veteran political journalist

0:39.5

last night, somebody who became actually an advisor to a previous Tory leader and he said he was

0:44.8

the most febrile he'd seen in decades of attending conferences and it really felt like that.

0:50.8

And?

0:51.4

Judging by the response of some of those individual party members I spoke to coming rushing out of that hall, they were all pretty keen that she managed to pull this off.

0:58.9

But I think if you spoke to some of her parliamentary team, some of those MPs now who feel that she perhaps has damaged her credibility, such an extent that she can no longer continue.

1:09.0

Now, it's interesting she said that she didn't prepare the

1:11.7

ground for her big tax-cutting budget plan, but I think she may have prepared the ground for

1:17.7

perhaps her demise, the fact that so many now of her MPs might well decide that she is on a clock.

1:24.5

Kelly, what's your thinking on this? Do you think she's here for the wrong hall?

1:29.2

Well, I've spent two days up in the conference now, but I also, as you know, know what the

1:34.3

general public think.

1:35.8

And from a general public perspective, first impressions have been very, very weak indeed.

1:40.9

There was no honeymoon period, which a Prime Minister, from all the years we've

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