come down somewhat. i saw several people of colour on twitter saying, why is it he has to say iod is country so much? i owe this country. i think there is always the sense that actually, even second generation immigrants, there was a choice to come here and there is an acceptance and unlike lots of european countries, can thrive in britain if you are an ethnic minority, you can belong to the establishment, is rishi sunak absolutely does. we simply cannot afford to be a low growth country. i just don t think this is at all reflective of the fact that her premiership has been a totalfailure. it means lower taxes. do you know what, she has now got to carry on with the rest of her life, having been the shortest serving prime minister in history. so, ijust think politicians that don t show a bit of humanity afterwards really, you know, the message is quite insufferable. humility. i want to pay tribute to my predecessor liz truss. she was not wrong to want to improve growth in this cou
for the uk, lord frost. i have always said leaving the customs union and single market has a cost, not every brexiteer has been willing to say that, but i ve always said it. i don t think it is as big as many people say. lord frost and many brexiteers would say brexit is about much more than the economy about sovereignty taking back control. but the economy was part of it. this is michael gove in 2016. the truth is that if we vote to leave, we will be in an economically stronger position. that also hasn t happened yet. no doubt resetting your trading relationship with the world takes with the world takes time. there are already 71 new agreements with other countries, although most are direct copies of deals done when the uk was part of the eu. there are completely new deals with japan, new zealand and australia.
i will work day in, day out, - to deliver for the british people. it s our old friend, the lectern. i believe in the british people, and i know that brighter days lie ahead. thank you. we can tjust keep doling out prime ministers every month. i will unite our country. he is prime minister. his task is great. his task is colossal. rishi sunak is nowl the prime minister. go figure. there s a lot for rishi sunak to think about party management, his mandate. and above all, there s this. right now, our country is facing a profound economic crisis. that crisis is in part because of liz truss s decisions.
there is no better time to set tone and direction than a prime minister s first week. i asked samia shah to help me assess how rishi sunak has gone about this. she is a conservative strategist and a former adviser to sajid javid. i saw several people of colour on twitter saying, why is it he has to say i owe this country so much? i think there is always the sense that actually, even second generation immigrants, there was a choice to come here and there is an acceptance and, unlike lots of european countries, you can thrive in britain if you are an ethnic minority, you can belong to the establishment, as rishi sunak absolutely does. we simply cannot afford to be a low growth country. i just don t think this is at all reflective of the fact that her premiership has been a totalfailure. it means lower taxes. do you know what, she has now got to carry on with the rest
we have lost a large fraction of our trade with the european union, including with high value professional services trade, that is making us poorer. or there is the uk s trade as a whole, the office for budget responsibility is the official body that provides independent economic analysis and it has concluded there has been a 15% reduction in trade intensity as a result of exit. it also released this data. the red line shows uk exports, and unlike other advanced economies, the uk s exports have not bounced back after covid. the obr links this to brexit. when still chancellor, mr sunak was asked about the drop in trade. it was always inevitable that if you changed the exact nature of your trading relationship with the eu, that would have an impact on trade flows. this week, in a different way, this point was acknowledged by the man who negotiated brexit