In Thetford, dissatisfaction with their MP is rife and even lifelong Tories would rather talk about Boris Johnson
would have been his MP, but he would not have been one of her supporters. Thetford’s most famous son believed in taxing the rich, overthrowing governments and thought all Tories were “cowards”.market town, some of Truss’s constituents are equally disparaging.
Even lifelong Tories, such as butcher Ian Hilton, would prefer Boris Johnson to either Truss or Rishi Sunak. “They shouldn’t have thrown Boris out. He might have told a few porkies but don’t they all,” he says. As debt manager at Citizens Advice in Thetford, Michelle Marchesi is not allowed to discuss party politics. But she says tax cuts will not help her growing client list.
The £400 energy rebate ‘isn’t even going to be a dent in my bill’, says Ben Dimmock, pictured with daughter Rebecca.He added: “I don’t think much of Liz Truss. There’s really nothing here apart from charity shops and the only jobs are factory shifts at £10 an hour. This is her home turf and she can’t see all the problems?”
Truss’s possible constituency opponent at the next election is Terry Jermy, a 37-year-old Labour county, district and town councillor, who has lived in Thetford all his life. He rattles off mounting problems in the constituency: “We have the worst rated adult social care in the UK; we have the only mental health trust in special measures; we’ve got a hospital in King’s Lynn that is falling down, and we are the fifth worst for access to dentistry in the UK. In a place that reliably votes Conservative, people here have been consistently let down by them.”
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