Laura’s Liz Truss Interview
Newscast
10/02/22
•44m
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We bring you Laura Kuenssberg’s interview with Liz Truss, in which the prime minister said she was committed to scrapping the 45p top rate of tax, but called it ‘a decision the chancellor made’.
Straight after coming off air, we also get Laura’s thoughts on what the prime minister had to say and what Michael Gove said in response.
Newscast is hosted by Adam Fleming. This episode was made by Chris Flynn. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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