‘She wasn’t sure how to get off the stage’: Liz Truss’s ungracious count retreat caps political humiliation
‘She wasn’t sure how to get off the stage’: Liz Truss’s ungracious count retreat caps political humiliation
The former prime minister had said she was running ‘on her record in government’. For once, she was taken at her word
[Liz Truss said] “The issue we faced as Conservatives was we haven’t delivered sufficiently on the policies people want. That means keeping taxes low, but also … things like the Human Rights Act that made it very difficult for us to deport illegal immigrants.”
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It’s interesting to note that not even the Reform candidate in this election, an adult education manager for Norfolk council, Toby McKenzie, cites small-boat immigration as the first issue in his stealing 9,958 votes from Truss here. Instead he suggests that the MP was out of touch on local issues that mattered.
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Her apparent inability to recognise that she may be among people whose mortgage payments she had trebled, and whose pensions she has hollowed out, was a source of baffled fascination to all her opponents.
It’s no wonder she lost. In addition to she’s clearly out of touch with her constituents, she’s also complaining about the Human Rights Act?
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