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Coffee House Shots

What Liz Truss's PopCon launch was really about

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Liz Truss is back! This time with a conference called 'Popular Conservatism', bringing together voices in the Conservative party and aiming to 'deliver popular conservative policies'. But what does the event really tells us about the state of right wing political thought in the UK today, and why were some of Truss's key allies not there? Cindy Yu talks to Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson.

Produced by Cindy Yu.

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Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots,

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the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

0:22.8

I'm Cindy U and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and Katie Balls.

0:26.2

So today it seems like a little bit of a throwback because Listruss is making headlines

0:30.7

once again and she's setting out her vision for conservatism today.

0:35.0

Katie this is a conference called Popular Conservatism. Can you tell us about

0:38.4

what List Trust thinks about popular conservatism? She thinks it's good but I think probably the issue we get to is what do we define as

0:45.5

popular conservatism.

0:46.5

But as you say, it feels that the trussites are back today in the sense we have one trussite

0:51.9

leaving the field quasi quotang

0:53.7

who said he's going to step down he of course served as Liz Truss as Chancellor.

0:57.4

I don't think it's hugely surprising.

0:59.8

Ultimately quasicotang has taken a very low profile since the very short-lived trust premiership.

1:06.0

He's given a few interviews, but I think it's probably fair to say he has shown more signs of humility and regret.

1:13.6

They're not always, but generally saying,

1:15.7

we went too far and so forth than Liz Truss has.

1:18.1

So you have an interesting contrast today

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