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Hello and welcome to Coffee House shots, spectators daily and sometimes more than daily

politics podcast. I'm Katie Balls, known during my Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth.

Now, a question parts the media, labour politicians and even some Tory MPs have been asking.

This week is where is Liz Truss and this morning she broke her silence and embarked on a

pre-tory conference media round of BBC Regional Radio, which is going to play you a few clips

of how that went for her. We need to borrow more this winter for the energy

crisis that we're facing. We're going to spend more in mortgage fees under what you've done

based on the predictions than we would have saved with energy.

I don't think anybody is arguing that we shouldn't have acted on energy.

Why can't you tell us this morning there won't be a return to fracking in Lancashire?

I don't accept the premise of your question. It's certainly the case at present.

Because what I've said is if there is local consent, we will go ahead.

We need to explore where there is local consent and where there isn't and we're still doing that work.

You're chancellant. You think we should rule out the whole of Lancashire?

You talked about how it's a success in other countries,

but in America they do it in the middle of nowhere. Do you actually know where Preston

Euro is where they have been fracking? Well, I don't think I've been to that site in the past.

Shouldn't you? Well, as I've said, we will only go ahead with projects where there is local consent.

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