TRUSS QUITS. Now what?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
A day after announcing that she was a 'fighter, not a quitter', Prime Minister Liz Truss quits. A disastrous 24 hours for the Conservative government culminated in the PM's ousting at lunchtime today. She's the shortest serving Prime Minister in British political history.
Today's episode looks at the events that led to Truss’ resignation after just 45 days in office, the candidates in the running to take over, and the likelihood of an early general election.
Joining all three News Agents are Conservative Health Minister Robert Jenrick and former Tory party MP and now Editor of Conservative Home, Paul Goodman.
Planning: Melissa Tutesigensi
Social Editor: Will Batchelor
Production: Gabriel Radus & Ellie Clifford
Executive Producer: Tom Hughes
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
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| 0:12.2 | Humiliation doesn't come much greater than we witness today. |
| 0:17.1 | Six weeks after going into Downing Street, Liz Truss is on her way out, |
| 0:23.6 | a series of calamitous errors, political misjudgments and ill fortune as well, |
| 0:30.1 | combining to make her the shortest serving Prime Minister in British history. |
| 0:35.2 | I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability. |
| 0:43.2 | Families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills. |
| 0:48.2 | Putin's illegal war in Ukraine threatens the security of our whole continent, and our country has been held back for too long |
| 0:57.0 | by low economic growth. I was elected by the Conservative Party with a mandate to change this. |
| 1:04.0 | We delivered on energy bills and on cutting national insurance. And we set out a vision for a low-tax, high-growth economy |
| 1:14.9 | that would take advantage of the freedoms of Brexit. |
| 1:19.0 | I recognise, though, given the situation, |
| 1:22.6 | I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected |
| 1:26.3 | by the Conservative Party. |
| 1:28.3 | I have therefore spoken to His Majesty the King to notify him that I am resigning as leader of the Conservative Party. |
| 1:37.3 | This morning I met the chairman of the 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady. |
| 1:43.3 | We've agreed that there will be a leadership election to be completed within the next week. |
| 1:49.0 | This will ensure that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plans and maintain our |
| 1:55.0 | country's economic stability and national security. |
| 1:59.0 | I will remain as Prime Minister |
| 2:01.1 | until a successor has been chosen. |
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