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These days, in British politics, chancellors are like buses.

And you'll be Chancellor and Liz Truss will be Prime Minister this time next month.

Absolutely 100%. I'm not going

anywhere. Today, I have asked Jeremy Hunt to become the new Chancellor. Quasi Quarteng is now our

fourth shortest serving Chancellor in history, one of four Chancellor of the Exchequer that Britain

has had since July. By contrast, in the 13 years of the last Labour government, we had only two,

three in 11 and a half of the Thatcher governments. It is a sad litmus test of the descent

of British politics to turmoil. The question now is whether Liz Truss is about to join

Kwase Quartang as a pub quiz question. As trivia, political

legacy as asterisk. It's Lewis here. On a day when the superlatives ran out, this is the newsagents.

The newsagents. If Partyate was a slow, lingering death,

this political crisis has been affiable

with a match lit by the Prime Minister

and her now former Chancellor.

We on this podcast have felt as if we've lived it,

charted it in real time.

Our episode titles are a catalogue of the chaos.

30th of September is Liz Truss doomed. Third of October. The lady is for turning. Fourth of October,

10 days to save Liz Truss. Funnily enough, published 10 days ago. There are so many questions now. It is difficult to know where to

begin. But perhaps the one exerting the strongest political gravity is this. What is the point of

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