Truss vs the ‘anti-growth’ coalition
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Liz Truss endured one of the most traumatic Conservative party conferences in living memory, with open revolt from her cabinet and MPs. Can the new prime minister survive and where does her economic reform agenda go next? Plus we discuss whether business is moving its opinions sharply towards Labour with the potential of the party's return to government in sight.
Presented by Sebastian Payne, with political editor George Parker, associate editor Stephen Bush, chief political correspondent Jim Pickard and business columnist Cat Rutter Pooley.
Produced by Anna Dedhar and Howie Shannon. The sound engineers were Persis Love and Jan Sigsworth.
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| 0:27.8 | This trust closed a traumatic toy party conference this week |
| 0:37.2 | by taking aim at what she called the anti-growth coalition opposed to her plans. |
| 0:43.6 | I will not allow the anti-growth coalition to hold us back. |
| 0:50.6 | Labour, the Lib Dems, the SMP, the militant unions, |
| 0:56.6 | the vested interest dressed up as think tanks. |
| 0:59.8 | The talking heads, the Brexit deniers, extension rebellion |
| 1:03.9 | and some of the people we had in the hall earlier. |
| 1:09.0 | They prefer protesting to doing. |
| 1:13.0 | They prefer talking on Twitter to taking tough decisions. |
| 1:17.5 | They taxi from North London townhouses to the BBC studio |
| 1:22.1 | to dismiss anyone challenging the status quo. |
| 1:26.8 | From broadcast to podcast, they peddle the same old answers. |
| 1:31.5 | It's always more taxes, more regulation and more meddling. |
| 1:37.8 | Wrong, wrong, wrong. |
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