Even Nigel Farage could not resist the appeal of Liz Truss to die-hard libertarians
Former prime minister Liz Truss poses for a selfie with supporters after the “Great British Growth Rally” fringe event on the sidelines of the Conservative Party’s annual conference in Manchester , who raised a quizzical eyebrow on his way by when he was told the growing line was for Ms Truss, asking: “Really?!”, a surprise guest at proceedings, who told reporters he had been tempted back to conference for the first time in three decades by Truss’s message.
In her speech, Ms Truss’s pitch to the Government was simple – cut corporation tax, lift the ban on fracking to reduce energy bills and remove planning red tape to help build 500,000 new homes. All these were things that she had advocated for in her ill-fated tenure in No 10. One senior Tory MP said that Liz Truss needed to “read the fucking room”, but was not concerned about the threat she posed to the party’s electoral prospects.A 2019-intake MP, who was previously a Truss supporter, suggested that “now is not the time for division” and that the growth rally was a “distraction”., and there’s all these different opinions about how to do it. But I’m not sure theirs is wanted,” they said.
Sir Iain Duncan Smith as an elder statesman helped Ms Truss get over the line in the leadership contest she won, but could lose his seat at the election.
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