Iain Dale speaks to former Prime Minister Liz Truss to discuss the release of her new book and get her thoughts on a whole host of topics.

00:20 - Meeting the Queen in Balmoral to be appointed PM
05:10 - First ambitions to be PM
08:15 - What is the book about?
11:30 - Difficulty in getting things done
14:20 - ‘People find me quite hard work’
16:50 - Are summits a waste of time?
17:55 - Early life - and going from Liberal Democrat to Conservative
23:25 - ‘Outsourced’ power to quangos and regulators
26:40 - Activist civil servants - left wing state
32:45 - Bugging Boris Johnson in hospital
36:50 - Where conservatives are going wrong
40:25 - Net zero plans amount to ‘economic suicide’
41:30 - Conservatives wanted self ID to ‘appear fashionable’
42:05 - Accepting the Blair agenda
43:05 - ‘Unfinished business’ - a return to frontline politics?
49:53 - Appearing at CPAC with Steve Bannon
51:00 - ‘Leftie media’
52:31 - What went wrong with the mini-budget?
59:00 - Blaming economy on the mini-budget a ‘smear’
01:00:49 - Sacking Kwasi Kwarteng
01:02:49 - Andrew Bailey should resign as Bank of England governor
01:06:10 - Sacking Kwasi Kwarteng
01:06:52 - Joe Biden not ‘particularly supportive of the United Kingdom’ - it ‘has to be’ Trump
01:09:05 - Labour has ‘nothing to say’
01:10:02 - Could Liz support Reform UK?
01:11:48 - Should the Rwanda plan be abandoned?
01:12:52 - Parallels between Putin and Hitler - UK not spending enough on defence
01:14:45 - Has this taken a personal toll on Liz?
01:19:05 - Quickfire questions: ECHR in or out? Naughtiest thing she’s ever done? Night in or night out? Last time she cried? Legacy in three words? Best job in government? Rating Rishi Sunak out of 10?

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