"Treated the country as laboratory mice" | Robert Halfon and Andrew Griffith
Sophy Ridge On Sunday
Sky News
4.2 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Griffith, says that Liz Truss still has the support of her government despite the economic turmoil.
Sophy is joined by Sky News' political correspondent Rob Powell and producer Scott Beasley to talk through her big interviews.
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| 0:42.0 | A Prime Minister still in office, but is it new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who's now really in the driving seat? |
| 0:48.2 | We speak to someone who will be working with him, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Griffith. |
| 0:52.9 | Also, Robert Half an MP on the mood on the Tory backbenchers. |
| 0:56.8 | Well, I worry that over the past few weeks, |
| 0:59.0 | the government has looked like libertarian jihadists |
| 1:02.3 | and treated the whole country as kind of laboratory mice. |
| 1:09.4 | We'll bring you those interviews in a moment. |
| 1:12.2 | And to talk about what they said and what they might mean, we are joined. |
| 1:14.9 | I'm very pleased to say by our political correspondent Rob Powell. |
| 1:18.1 | Hello. |
| 1:18.6 | Nice to be here. |
| 1:19.3 | And also the show producer Scott Beasley. |
| 1:21.8 | Hi, Scott. |
| 1:22.3 | Hi, Sophie. |
| 1:23.0 | Hi, Rob. |
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