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TyskySour: Truss’ First Day As PM

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🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Michael Walker and Owen Jones discuss the key events of Truss’s first full day as prime minister and her first PMQs against Keir Starmer. Plus: Why Suella Braverman as the new home secretary could be even worse than Priti Patel; Liz Truss hires a climate disaster as an advisor; and bye bye bye Nadine Dorries. […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to Tisky Sauer on a very big day in British politics. Liz Truss is first full

0:11.0

day as Prime Minister and her first Prime Minister's questions. Not on this momentous

0:16.0

day, got a big guest Owen Jones. Today was Liz Truss's first full day in office

0:21.2

and as well as finalising her ministerial appointments, it would also her first chance

0:25.6

to go head-to-head with Keir Starmer at PMQ's. The standoff focused on how Liz Truss would

0:31.4

pay for her plan to freeze energy bills and her refusal to impose a windfall tax on the

0:36.7

excess profits of energy giants, which, according to Treasury figures, could reach as high

0:41.9

as £170 billion. The Prime Minister knows she's no choice but to back an energy price freeze.

0:49.3

But it won't be cheap and the real choice, the political choice is who is going to pay it.

0:58.6

Is she really telling us that she's going to leave these vast excess profits on the table

1:05.0

and make working people foot the bill for decades to come?

1:09.2

I understand that people across our country are struggling with the cost of living

1:18.4

and they're struggling with their energy bills and that is why I as Prime Minister will take

1:24.0

immediate action to help people with the cost of their energy bills and I will be making an

1:29.9

announcement to this House on that tomorrow and giving people certainty to make sure that they

1:38.1

are able to get through this winter and be able to have the energy supplies and be able to

1:44.2

afford it. But we can't just deal with today's problem. We can't just put a sticking plaster on

1:50.2

it. What we need to do is increase our energy supplies long-term. That is why we will open up more

1:57.2

supply in the North Sea, which the Honourable Gentleman has opposed. That is why we will build more

2:03.2

nuclear power stations, which the Labour Party didn't do when they were in office and that is why we

2:09.6

will get on with delivering the supply as well as helping people through the winter.

2:16.0

It's worth noting that oil firms themselves have said they have so much money they don't know

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