PM Liz Truss is like a dead parrot nailed to her perch by terrified Tory MPs
LIZ Truss is a dead parrot, nailed to her perch by Tory MPs terrified of a suicidal election.
In the blink of an eye, she has trashed the Tories’ reputation for economic management and turned the world’s sixth largest economy into a laughing stock.
It is impossible to see how — having sacked the Chancellor who delivered her own personally stamped budget — she can survive two months, still less another two years.
Her dismal, unapologetic press conference yesterday did nothing to arouse sympathy.
Indeed, it served only to underline her lack of comprehension or self-awareness.
Kwasi Kwarteng was an extremely close friend.
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They were in lock-step on the growth agenda which defined her bid for power. That agenda won applause on the day.
It was spoiled only by a stubborn failure to soothe and prepare the all-powerful money markets.
It says something when the sacking of a Chancellor in mid-economic crisis is greeted with a chorus of approval from the City.
Truss has now made herself hostage to a new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, whose views are diametrically opposed to almost every policy on which she stood for office.
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This avowed Remainer, rejected as a potential PM only a few weeks ago, is now unsackable.
That makes him the most powerful player in Downing Street — and that includes the nominal Prime Minister.
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The Tories are now doomed. They lumbered themselves with a leader who lacks all the tools of the political trade — charm, guile, fluency, plausibility.
Now they must scrabble around among the candidates they just rejected to find a replacement.
