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Liz Truss responds to being compared to a lettuce
- The former prime minister was asked whether she thought her time at Downing Street had made the UK 'an international laughing stock'.
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- NewsThe Independent
Tory support now lower than when Liz Truss was leader
Survey comes days after Rishi Sunak spoke of the ‘greatest comeback in political history’
- NewsHuffPost UK
Tories Now Even Less Popular Than When Liz Truss Was Leader As Party Faces Election Meltdown
Rishi Sunak has managed to take his party to new depths.
- NewsHuffPost UK
Kwasi Kwarteng Lashes Out At Liz Truss Over His 'Trumpian' Sacking
No love lost between the one-time double act, then.
- NewsThe Independent
Tories doomed at next election because of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, says pollster John Curtice
John Curtice says Boris Johnson’s No 10 lockdown parties and Truss’s economic catastrophe have made it impossible for Rishi Sunak to cling on to power
- NewsThe Guardian
Liz Truss book enters bestseller list in 70th place with 2,228 copies sold
Former PM’s first-week sales compare with 21,000 for David Cameron’s memoir and 92,000 for Tony Blair book
- NewsThe Guardian
Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss review – economical with the truth about her own downfall
The former PM’s whingeing, unintentionally hilarious and scapegoating rant about the economy-crashing disaster of her time in No 10 is best read as a cautionary tale of hubristic zeal
- NewsThe Telegraph
Liz Truss says she’s not trying to reinstate herself as prime minster
Liz Truss has insisted she does not want to “reinstate” herself as prime minister, just days after hinting she could return to front-line politics.
- NewsHuffPost UK
Liz Truss Refuses To Apologise For Her Role In Mortgage Rate Rises In Toe-Curling Interview
The ex-PM also claimed people who criticise her in the UK "don't want to face the truth".
- NewsSky News
Liz Truss refuses to apologise for sparking mortgage rate rise - but admits one failing as PM
Liz Truss has acknowledged she and her government lost the confidence of financial markets following the mini-budget of October 2022 – but has refused to apologise to homeowners for higher interest rates. Talking to Sky News, the former prime minister blamed her downfall on the Bank of England, primarily governor Andrew Bailey. "In retrospect, yes, I probably should have spoken directly to the governor of the Bank of England at the time."
- NewsThe Independent
Liz Truss accused of using ‘fabricated’ Rothschild quote in new memoir
Former PM’s publisher reportedly forced to apologise over use of ‘fabricated’ quote
