Was Liz Truss right?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Cindy Yu speaks to Fraser Nelson and Kate Andrews.
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| 0:17.6 | Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined today by Kate Andrews and Fraser Nelson. |
| 0:25.5 | Now in the past week, Liz Truss has resurfaced, giving her version of events that led her down |
| 0:30.3 | for at Sonya Tonograph piece, but also in an interview with spectator TV, which listeners to |
| 0:35.6 | this podcast would have heard. But today we're talking about whether or not she was right. |
| 0:42.7 | I mean, it's quite a good question and I think it encompasses a lot of things and I think we have |
| 0:46.4 | two different perspectives here. So before we get into the proper dinging Fraser, maybe just |
| 0:53.0 | why don't you ask both of you to just set your positions out in one sentence for |
| 0:57.3 | that you can go first? Well, I don't think it's too dinging, but over several months, |
| 1:02.8 | when we're debating Liz Truss, what she's trying to do, even during leadership contest, |
| 1:07.2 | Kate and I have a different perspective. So I've been a lot more sympathetic to Liz Truss's |
| 1:12.8 | general critique of the Roses of Government and of the needs on occasion for deficit finance |
| 1:18.8 | tax cuts. I think that her downfall was to do the combination of factors and I think that enough |
| 1:25.4 | time has passed for us to separate them, to look at what she did wrong, but also what she did |
| 1:30.8 | right and whether her fundamental message was one which was not only correct, but one of the |
| 1:36.8 | conservatives are going to have to end up going back to whether they like it or not. Kate, |
| 1:41.6 | Fraser and I are going to agree on some of the bigger picture messaging around the |
| 1:47.4 | necessity for growth, around the necessity for getting that tax burden down. But the question of |
| 1:52.5 | this podcast is not our tax cuts a good thing or is going for growth the right thing to do. |
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