Liz Truss comeback | Grant Shapps, Jonathan Reynolds and Alicia Kearns
Sophy Ridge On Sunday
Sky News
4.2 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On the Sophy Ridge on Sunday podcast, Sophy is joined by Camilla Turner, chief political correspondent at The Telegraph who broke the story, and producer Scott Beasley. They react to the prime minister's comments, as well as unpack the reaction from today's guests.
Plus Sophy, Camilla and Scott discuss the dangers of TikTok, after Foreign Affairs Committee chair Alicia Kearns warns Sophy to delete the social media app.
Show Editor: Scott Beasley
Podcast Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Podcast Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:32.0 | Hello and welcome to the Safie Ridge on Sunday podcast with me at Safy Ridge. Now this week we've been |
| 0:37.4 | talking to the business secretary, Grant Shaps with me at Safely Ridge. Now this week we've been talking to |
| 0:37.9 | the business secretary, Grant Shapps, the Shadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, as well as |
| 0:42.6 | Alyssa Kerns, who is a Conservative MP, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. |
| 0:51.0 | Now we're joined as usual by Scott Beasley, our show editor. Hi Scott. Hi, Sophie. And we also are joined by the |
| 0:57.9 | woman at the moment, Camilla Turner from the Telegraph. Morning. Good morning. Now, the reason that I say |
| 1:03.8 | that is because it was your byline on the 4,000 word essay by Liz Truss that is basically just blown |
| 1:10.3 | up the political landscape this morning. |
| 1:13.5 | It must have been a bit of a busy week for you. Yes, it has been a busy week. I think everyone who, |
| 1:18.9 | well, the small amount of people who knew this Liz Truss essay was coming had all been sworn to |
| 1:22.7 | secrecy because I just didn't want word to get up. Of course, inevitably it did. |
| 1:28.1 | I think the main surprise for people was that the expectation was that this was going to be a 3,000 word essay |
| 1:34.4 | and fact it out to be more like 4,000 words. |
| 1:36.9 | Inflation. |
| 1:37.6 | Exactly. |
| 1:38.5 | So some bonus words there. |
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