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Today in Focus

Who’s running Britain?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Hunt has only been Chancellor for a few days. But on Monday he set about reversing almost everything that was in the prime minister’s policy platform. Is Liz Truss really still in charge of the country?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:30.0

On Friday, the Prime Minister sacked her Chancellor. Her old friend, Quazi Quateng, was booted

0:43.4

out with trust hoping that the move would calm the economic storm, triggered by their mini-budget.

0:49.6

But by Monday, Jeremy Hunt, Britain s fourth Chancellor in four months, had ditched everything Liz

0:59.8

Trust had stood for. The Guardian s deputy political editor, Jessica Elgott, was in Westminster,

1:06.4

as the new Chancellor delivered a sensational new fiscal statement.

1:11.8

Firstly, we will reverse almost all the tax measures announced in the growth plan three weeks ago

1:19.6

that have not started parliamentary legislation. On the most basic level for Conservative MPs,

1:24.8

this is incredibly embarrassing. And you can see that on people's faces. You can see it on the

1:30.4

face of people sitting on the front bench next to Jeremy Hunt and Lizzie made that statement.

1:35.6

And as the Labour Party were granted an urgent question in the House of Commons,

1:39.6

the Prime Minister was nowhere to be seen. But where is the Prime Minister?

1:48.0

Hiding away, dodging questions, scared of her own shadow, the ladies not returning up.

1:59.9

Where was Liz Trust?

2:01.5

The Prime Minister came in in what was a kind of farcical moment because we spent the last 45 minutes

2:11.8

in the urgent question where Penny Morgan has been saying again and again the very specific

2:16.8

reasons that she can't say but are very important that wireless trust can't be there to answer

2:21.0

an urgent question from Keir Starmer.

2:24.0

We are the colleges, we are the colleges to the leader of the opposition and the House,

2:28.9

the PM is detained on urgent business.

2:36.3

And then the Prime Minister does actually appear next to her as she's making all these excuses

2:43.4

for why she can't be there and sits there completely kind of impassive and she looked

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