Will Truss be gone by Christmas?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Isabel Hardman speaks to Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth.
Produced by Natasha Feroze.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management. |
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| 0:16.3 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shot, |
| 0:18.3 | Suspectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Isabelle Harbman and I'm joined by |
| 0:22.7 | Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth. |
| 0:25.1 | Well, surprise, surprise, we're not getting a U-turn this afternoon, |
| 0:29.1 | which breaks the habit of a well-a-month that we've had |
| 0:32.4 | Liz Truss as Prime Minister. |
| 0:34.4 | Quasi Quarten has also insisted that he's not going anywhere |
| 0:38.0 | as Chancellor who knows how long before that U-turn. |
| 0:42.1 | Fraser, what has the government not U-turned on and why? |
| 0:46.1 | Well, it's widely expected to water down the budgets. |
| 0:50.8 | In other words, I think Liz Truss has gone through various stages of leadership |
| 0:54.1 | very, very quickly. She's only three weeks ago. |
| 0:57.0 | She had not yet delivered her budget, so that was at the stage of |
| 1:00.3 | boldness even hubris in not telling the rest of the cabinet what she would do |
| 1:04.5 | in announcing the tax cuts. |
| 1:06.7 | Of course, the reason other Tories haven't announced tax cuts |
| 1:09.4 | is they haven't worked out how they would pay for them. |
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