Oct 15: UK Prime Minister Liz Truss facing talks of a leadership challenge within Conservative Party. - a podcast by Global News / Curiouscast

After just weeks as U.K. prime minister, Liz Truss is facing talks of a leadership challenge within the Conservative Party and opposition leaders are clamouring for a general election. Truss fired her chancellor (finance minister) Kwasi Kwarteng, with replacement Jeremy Hunt warning about "difficult decisions" and some taxes going up, this after Kwarteng cut the top rate of income tax. With energy prices soaring the Truss government has introduced an 'energy price guarantee.' Britain's financial sustainability has been a subject of discussion between the head of the Bank of England and the new chancellor. Canada has now been urged to resist further spending with experts pointing to the U.K. stressors.
Guest: Katja Hoyer. Anglo-German journalist and historian. Author, Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire. (From London)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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