Jeremy Hunt – ‘The Prime Minister is in charge’
To say things do not look rosy for Liz Truss would be quite the understatement. With the government now on its second Chancellor in as many months, and its once flagship policies being hastily swept under the carpet, the Conservative party appears to be in damage limitation mode. Laura Kuenssberg spoke to the new Chancellor this morning, in a pre-recorded interview, asking him if Truss was now such a damaged figure that he was the one really calling the shots:
‘There is a very difficult job to be done right now’
Hunt told Kuenssberg that he would be looking at all government departments’ ‘efficiencies’ and refused to rule out ditching more measures from September’s mini-Budget. He added that ‘some taxes will go up’ to help smooth over the recent economic turbulence:
Robert Halfon – The government has looked like ‘libertarian jihadists’
Sophy Ridge spoke to the chair of the Commons Education Committee, Robert Halfon. Halfon argued that the government had lost public faith because it was straying too far from compassionate conservatism:
No. 10 remarks about Javid ‘disgusting’
Ridge also bought up remarks reportedly made by the Prime Minister about the former Chancellor Sajid Javid:
Matt Hancock – Truss should reshuffle her cabinet
The former Health Secretary Matt Hancock made up one member of Laura Kuenssberg’s political panel. She asked him what he thought the Prime Minister’s next steps should be:
BioNTech team – ‘Changing cancer patients’ lives is in our grasp’
And finally, Kuenssberg spoke to Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci, the co-founders of BioNTech, the company made famous by the Covid vaccine which they developed alongside Pfizer. The pair spoke about a potential breakthrough in using vaccinations to fight against cancer:
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