{"id":69240,"date":"2023-04-14T08:46:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T07:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=69240"},"modified":"2023-04-14T08:46:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T07:46:41","slug":"truss-is-wrong-on-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/04\/14\/truss-is-wrong-on-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Truss is wrong on everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I debated with Asa Bennett of the Daily Telegraph, who was Liz Truss's speechwriter for a number of years and who might be considered the archetypal Tufton Street commentator, on Times Radio on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>We discussed Truss's speech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/apr\/12\/liz-truss-speech-sketch-heritage-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to the Heritage Foundation in the USA<\/a> made that day in which she claimed that the West was moving to the left, was being overtaken by woke sentiment and had lost its entrepreneurial spirit. The rest is in this exchange, which begins immediately after I was asked to comment on such sentiments. I think it fair to say that I opened up with both barrels:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Times Radio debate on Liz Truss&#039;s speech in the USA by Richard Murphy\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1492151917&show_artwork=true&maxheight=750&maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I debated with Asa Bennett of the Daily Telegraph, who was Liz Truss&#8217;s speechwriter for a number of years and who might be considered the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/04\/14\/truss-is-wrong-on-everything\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69241,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69240\/revisions\/69241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}