Summary
Who is Liz Truss and what would she be like as leader? Are the comparisons with Margaret Thatcher accurate? What was going on with that cheese speech? In this special episode of Newscast, Adam talks to her former special adviser Kirsty Buchanan, Institute for Economic Affairs director and university friend Mark Littlewood, and Charlotte Ivers, political correspondent at Times Radio, to profile the woman who could be our next prime minister.
Today’s episode was produced by Tim Walklate with Cordelia Hemming, Danny Wittenberg and Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, we're going to do a couple of episodes of newscasts where we profile the two contenders |
| 0:09.1 | to be Prime Minister. |
| 0:10.9 | First of all, it's Liz Truss, who I first met in 2014 when we both went to a French |
| 0:18.4 | food expo when she was the environment secretary and she was on a drive to boost British |
| 0:24.3 | expoers. |
| 0:26.0 | And this was at a time when politicians were not very keen to be seen eating on camera |
| 0:31.3 | because of Ed Miliband and his awkward bacon sandwich episode. |
| 0:36.4 | So I basically, when I met her, was just constantly trying to get her to eat. |
| 0:40.8 | Hi, very nice to meet you. |
| 0:42.8 | Hi. |
| 0:43.8 | I hope you're feeling packish. |
| 0:44.8 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:45.8 | This year at Elizabeth Truss and her surprisingly big entourage have helped more than 2,000 British |
| 0:52.1 | businesses reach new markets. |
| 0:54.1 | Food is such an important part of our economy. |
| 0:57.2 | One of the key things, it's a bigger manufacturing industry than either cars or aerospace and |
| 1:03.4 | we need to see it as a key economic driver. |
| 1:06.5 | Now she's on a drive to make the French love British cheese of all flavours. |
| 1:12.1 | This is a good summer such as a white farm summer such as a blended with curry flavour. |
| 1:18.1 | It's in the quiet. |
| 1:20.7 | So it's a meeting of two countries. |
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