Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, discusses Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, and the disastrous Truss-Kwarteng mini-budget. The podcast delves into the challenges of modern politics, decision-making under pressure, and Brexit outcomes. Reflects on past political decisions, leadership styles, and political judgment.

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng discusses the future of the Tory Party, New Labour's conservatism, Rishi Sunak, Rwanda, Brexit, Liz Truss, diversity in politics, and the British Empire in an engaging conversation with the hosts.

Kwasi Kwarteng, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, shares his turbulent experience during Liz Truss's brief premiership. He candidly reflects on the controversial mini-budget that led to a market crash and reveals his thoughts on the Conservative Party's struggle to find new leadership. Kwarteng discusses the party's internal divisions and the implications of aligning with extreme viewpoints, as well as the future of UK politics amid shifting public support for the Conservatives. His insights offer a behind-the-scenes look at a pivotal moment in British political history.

Financial historian Kwasi Kwarteng discusses the significance of fiscal policy in times of war, the revolution of Dutch finance, the role of money, debt, and protectionism, the creation of the Euro, wartime economics and the use of paper currency, and the impact of government bonds and the power of the bond market.

The political Left often purports that it has society’s best interests at heart and that it works for the good of all. Yet according to conservatives, it is precisely that self-regard, that attempt to monopolise virtue, which exposes the hypocrisy of left-wing ideology. In this archive debate from 2018, we gathered Labour MP Stella Creasy, environmental campaigner, journalist and author, George Monbiot, Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng, and the leading philosopher of conservative thought, the late Roger Scruton, who sadly passed away in 2020, to discuss the issue of right vs left. Our host for the discussion was the journalist, broadcaster, visiting lecturer and Professor in the Humanities Council at Princeton University, Razia Iqbal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices