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In the discussion that took place between the two wannabe prime ministers, as they were, over the summer, and liz truss and her team wanted to kind of correct that in what they saw as their priorities in the early weeks, hence the announcement today. but in big picture terms, politically, bluntly, success for them would be keeping the nhs off the front pages, off discussions on newscast and plenty of other programs come off discussions on newscast and plenty of other programmes, because they know that if it's generating headlines, those headlines are bad, and they also know, picking up on the ...

I can tell you've come from the house of lords because you've got posh notepaper and you're wearing a tie! judgey! and we've got natasha loder, who is the health policy editor from the economist. hi, natasha. hello, hello! welcome to the studio, because you've been on zoom before, so it's nice to actually see you in real life. right, let's do the economy first. lord bilimoria, this announcement we're going to get from kwasi kwarteng, we keepjoking — is it a budget, a mini—budget, fiscal event? from your soundings around it, how huge is it going to be, do you reckon? i think this is - absol...

But i think it will feel very kind of different and new tomorrow. yes, it's a continuation of a conservative government that in one way or another has been in power since 2010, but actually, with a new person at the top and a very, very different instinct economically, i think it'll feel different from thejohnson era and very different from the cameron and 0sborne era. just a super—quick thought on the timing... i don't think this is just a political thing that they want to be seen to hit the ground running — they've kind of got to, right, because you are talking the strategy here is, we a...

Success for them would be keeping the nhs off the front pages, off discussions on newscast and plenty of other programmes, because they know that if it's generating headlines, those headlines are bad, and they also know, picking up on the point about backlogs, that with stuff like backlogs and the time it takes to get a gp's appointment, if that continues to be really bad, that is politically really threatening for a government. well, they've already got a problem because natasha has invited herself back on already. laughter. i have absolutely, you are going to have me back. lord bilimoria, th...

Across the nhs, and it's why my approach... as we've onlyjust, last week, for example, from nhs digital, started getting some data about what is happening practice by practice. so, that raises a few things, not least about, i wonder what she did, did she stub her toe? did she not want to declare it? let's not dwell on the health secretary's actual health. but it does raise this issue of kind of access to things and how long you've got to wait, and the thing that was announced today is this new sort of not a target, but... expectation, i think was the word. that you will be seen by your gp with...