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Oct 2022
30m 12s

Liz Truss's Speech

BBC News
About this episode

Liz Truss delivers her first leader’s speech at Tory conference.

Adam and Chris are joined by Charlotte Ivers, political correspondent at Times Radio, to unpack the PM’s economic plan, what she means by the ‘anti-growth coalition’, and what happened when protesters interrupted the speech.

Liz Truss arrived to the sound of M People's 90s hit Moving on Up - Adam speaks to the group’s founder Mike Pickering, who isn’t happy about it.

Today’s Newscast is hosted by Adam Fleming and political editor Chris Mason.

This episode was made by Chris Flynn with Miranda Slade and Madeleine Drury. The technical producer was Gareth Jones and the assistant editor was Alison Gee.

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