WE can rejoice momentarily that the kakistocracy under the worst prime minister in British history has been brought to an end. That said, we should prepare ourselves for it to be revived under Liz Truss.
Truss, who got lost trying to leave from a Conservative Party hustings in Cheltenham. Truss, who made a bizarre speech at a Conservative Party conference about the fact we import two-thirds of our cheese. A woman who offended one of our closest European allies, France, when she said “the jury is out” on President Emmanuel Macron.
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Truss shows a remarkable and unenviable natural ability to put her foot in her mouth.
As with Boris Johnson, her hubristic ambition o’er leaps itself. This mythology will soon be exposed for what it is. For there is nothing quite like high office in exposing weakness of character and incompetence. The fate that befell Boris Johnson shall also be her fate.
Matthew Parris, political writer, broadcaster and former Conservative MP, said: “Liz Truss is a planet-sized mass of overconfidence and ambition teetering upon a pinhead of a political brain. It must all come crashing down.”
Sandy Gordon
Edinburgh
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