What Liz Truss’s big speech was really about
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Katy Balls speaks to Fraser Nelson, Kate Andrews and James Heale.
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| 0:22.8 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, |
| 0:24.5 | the spectator's daily politics podcast. I'm Katie Pools and today I'm joined by |
| 0:29.9 | Fraser Nelson, Kate Andrews and James Hill. |
| 0:34.4 | It's a packed episode. Liz Truss has just given her first major speech from the economy |
| 0:40.2 | since she left 10 Downing Street and this comes almost a year to the day to the mini budget |
| 0:46.0 | anniversary. Here's what she had to say when she spoke of the Institute for Government earlier |
| 0:51.0 | this morning. Now some people say we were in too much of a rush. |
| 0:54.8 | And it's certainly true that I didn't just try to fatten the pig on market day. |
| 0:59.1 | I tried to rear the pig, fatten the pig and slaughter the pig on market day. |
| 1:04.8 | I confessed to that. But the reason we were in a rush is because voters had voted for change. |
| 1:12.9 | They voted for change in 2016 and they voted for change again in 2019. |
| 1:19.4 | And I wanted to deliver that change and I knew we had limited time. |
| 1:25.4 | James, let's kick off for you because you were in the room where it happened. |
| 1:29.5 | Describe the atmosphere, the audience. Did she get in the pool? |
| 1:32.9 | Never thought. She got some polis sprawls, yes. But I would say that it was mostly |
| 1:36.9 | journalist keen. Shocked. But always know that Liz is good for a story. I thought the most |
| 1:41.4 | interesting attendee was Nigel Farage who was sitting there. Well see there is a journalist |
| 1:45.1 | or as a political backer. I wouldn't know Nigel's private intentions, |
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