Liz Truss

I agree.

I mean, if you remember when Katrina is first mentioned in Osthaus, the way Alan wants us to pitch her is imagine Liz Truss.

And then it's just like that.

And I don't think someone who is like Liz Truss would have worked in the show.

I think pitching her, making her younger was the right creative decision.

Yeah, also, I feel like perhaps the Katrina we saw in How Are You is slightly more on the glamorous side of things than Liz Truss would be, which, again, I think feels like it's about right as well, just in terms of the outfits and the styling and the hair and the look.

Yeah, no, I think they got it about right, I think, yeah.

I feel like in the sole Dangerfields dating agency, she would be listed under scorcher.

Do you think it's a vote winner? It's certainly something that CityM's been calling for for quite a while.

Yeah, it's an interesting one because obviously the Shadow Chancellor was part of the government under Rishi Sunak, under Liz Truss, you know, in that kind of era of the Tory government.

And it was actually Rishi Sunak, when Rishi Sunak was Chancellor, that he got rid of this sort of VAT shopping, right? It's when Tories can come to the UK, they come to London, they spend lots and then they can get their VAT.

You might have that when you go to other countries across Europe, right? and the treasury costed it as like a 540 million pound increase on so it's cost basically that relief and now the government now has it back um the hospitality industry has always like fought back you know the likes of victoria beckham have been massive opponents of it and i guess that kind of effect of reducing vat free shopping for tourists is uh really sort of rippled through the hospitality sector at a really challenging time post pandemic so the tories are a month before their big party conference are calling for it to be brought back.

I guess there's...

The Labour Party have gone very hard, as have Reform.

I've gone very hard on Andrew Griffith being part of the Liz Truss mini-budget Treasury team, even though he was a junior Treasury minister at the time.

You know, are some of those other

Do you

remember when Liz Truss made that awful speech to a Tory conference where she was going on about pork exports to China? Yeah, cheese.

That is a disgrace.

Well, Ed Davey had a similar excruciating moment where he was doing a rallying call to the troops and he was like literally screaming out and punching the air, we care! We fight!

I don't know if you've come across it.

Dario Perkins termed after the Liz Truss moment, the UK has a moron premium-

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But how does it feel personally to be shunted like that? And you sort of see unhinged versions of it.

You know, Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, probably the best examples of it.

It must feel grim for Keir Starmer because I think...

His plan, and I feel like he articulated this, was this will take until the whole of the end of our first period of governance.

didn't lose.

Hadn't even finished it, you know? Yeah, so actually you're the losers.

If you're Keir Starmer, how do you stay in as long as he did anyway with literally everybody? He was less popular than Liz Truss.

That's mental.

You know, it didn't make things necessarily comfortable for everybody, but it was, you know, from 97 when the Bank of England was made independent until 2020 or 2022, the inflation average 2%, which was their target.

But in 2022, as you remember, around the time that Liz Truss was briefly prime minister, inflation went up to 11%.

And then people got really worried about what was going to happen over that winter of 2022, 2023, because, you know, oil prices have gone up and more importantly, gas prices have gone up.

And so we were looking at some pretty alarming numbers for household fuel bills.

Maybe a future flamethrower submission.

And while we did make... a Liz Truss reference about Carrie Lynn Findlay, the B.C. conservative leader, or at least the B.C. conservative leader for a minute.

We talked about her early woes as leader and not just the departure, but she was like bleeding MLAs.

There was like 10 of them gone in the first few weeks.

It turns out that Liz Truss was actually kind of an apt comparison.

Remember the head of lettuce and Liz Truss and her brief blip on the radar of British politics? Well, BC's conservatives are no doubt going to be trying to find their way out of this desert over the next while, and we'll be here.

to plot that course with you as we figure out what's going on in politics across the country.

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Britain can still borrow, but investors now want a much higher return for lending it money.

Take a look at this clip where the rise in government borrowing costs is compared with a market turmoil under Liz Truss.

Yeah, this is the conversation I'd say I'm having most often with people.

It's the sort of message I get several times a week, either from people in government, people who've been through government, been chewed up and spat out by government and look at it with a jaundiced eye, or people in business.