In office, but not in power
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
When the last episode of Chopper's Politics was published, we had a different Chancellor. By the time the next one comes out, we may well have another Prime Minister, the way this week is going.
The Telegraph's own Ben Riley-Smith and Tony Diver join Christopher Hope to talk about burning the mini-Budget, if the Tories' time is up, and if (whisper it listeners) it might be an idea to bring back Boris.
Plus former Telegraph writer George Trefgarne on why he thinks MPs, not Conservative party members, should have a say in who takes over from Truss, if the time comes.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on chopper's politics. |
| 0:04.0 | You have to think that the natural order in things and sooner or later the opposition does have to form the government. |
| 0:11.0 | And if you've made a complete haulics of things that it may be that you |
| 0:14.5 | know it just labors turn don't you think? |
| 0:18.6 | Hello I'm Christopher Hope the Telegraph Association for, and Welcome to Chopper's Politics Podcast. |
| 0:25.4 | Now, two weeks ago, Sweller Braverman, the Home Secretary, |
| 0:28.8 | came on this podcast and said this. |
| 0:31.9 | Ultimately, I'm very disappointed that members of our own parliamentary party |
| 0:36.0 | staged a coup effectively and undermined the authority of the Prime Minister |
| 0:41.0 | in an unprofessional way. |
| 0:42.9 | We are one party. |
| 0:43.9 | Now at the time, Swell of Braven's comment about a coup underway against Liz Truss seemed well fanciful |
| 0:51.7 | to a lot of observers. Now two weeks later they're not laughing |
| 0:56.3 | because as we speak Liz Truss is fighting for both her political credibility and |
| 1:01.6 | perhaps more significantly her right to stay on as Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street. |
| 1:07.0 | Now since our last episode recorded last Thursday in the Red Lion pub, we have gained our fourth Chancellor of 2022 and so far today Monday |
| 1:17.5 | Jeremy Hunt has taken a blowtorch to the mini budget announced by his predecessor Quasiguotang back in September. |
| 1:25.0 | We will reverse almost all the tax measures announced in the growth plan three weeks ago that have not started parliamentary legislation. |
| 1:35.1 | We will no longer be proceeding with the cuts to dividend tax rates, the reversal of off-payroll |
| 1:40.8 | working reforms introduced in 2017 and 2021, the new VAT-free shopping |
| 1:46.6 | scheme for non-UK visitors. |
| 1:48.7 | It was brutal and it was short and that may be the conclusion of Liz Trust's premiership. |
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