Liz Truss's first days, with Andrew Marr
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🗓️ 8 September 2022
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Summary
The Prime Minister, Liz Truss, has announced her plans to help with the energy crisis. Anoosh Chakelian is joined by the New Statesman’s political editor, Andrew Marr, and deputy political editor, Rachel Wearmouth, to discuss Truss’s first few days in office and how her energy price cap is likely to go down with the public.
Then, in You Ask Us, they answer a listener’s question on whether Boris Johnson is planning a political comeback.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Anouche. I'm Rachel. And I'm Andrew. And on today's episode of The New |
| 0:10.8 | Statesman Podcast, we discuss Liz Truss' first days in office, and you ask us. How |
| 0:16.0 | serious are the rumours about Boris Johnson coming back? |
| 0:21.2 | So we are in the first week of Liz Truss' premier ship. She is actually speaking in the comments |
| 0:32.6 | as we record announcing her new policy to help people with their energy bills. We think we know a |
| 0:38.1 | bit about that plan already, but we will unpick it in greater detail next episode. But I want to get |
| 0:43.2 | both of your reflections actually on what her first week has been like so far. What did you make of |
| 0:48.6 | cabinet appointments, for example? I think they were all as briefed, so there's no big surprise |
| 0:52.9 | in there. I think it's been said by a lot of people that there aren't pretty much no supporters |
| 0:57.8 | of Rishi Sunak, even though I think her press secretary put out a statement pretty much straight |
| 1:02.9 | afterwards saying, this is a unity cabinet, and it could contain five members of the leadership |
| 1:07.8 | contest that kind of underlined that certainly did not include Rishi Sunak. It seems that he probably |
| 1:12.6 | wouldn't have taken a job any case, but yeah, that will spell trouble for her to let her stage. I think |
| 1:17.3 | it was notable at PMQ's that while she seemed to have a lot of support and none of her critics were |
| 1:22.7 | there, I think she's got a free ring. I think, as has been already said, but quite rightly, |
| 1:27.2 | there are more big talented names on the back benches than you would expect at this stage, |
| 1:32.4 | and that destabilises things for the entire Conservative party. They are not going to jump into |
| 1:38.3 | rebellion at this stage. They're going to give her a honeymoon, but they are a source of, I think |
| 1:42.7 | they can strain her. In terms of the policies that she wants to move on to, there are big groups |
| 1:47.6 | to potential rebels on almost every side. But in terms of the cabinet itself, I take a slightly |
| 1:52.8 | different view from a lot of people. I think this is a strong-ish cabinet, and it's certainly |
| 1:56.8 | stronger than Boris Johnson's cabinet. I think you think of partying, you think of cleverly, |
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