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Oct 17 8 tweets 3 min read
Jeremy Hunt is the now the Govt's ventriloquist and Liz Truss is his dummy.

Tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox.

inews.co.uk/opinion/liz-tr…
Truss does what looks like a hostage video with @ChrisMasonBBC.
That moment when she pauses after being asked whether she will lead the Tories into the next election...
No10 will be delighted to lead the news with this Truss interview...when the real story of today is her total silence in the Commons.
" I do want to accept responsibility and say sorry, for the mistakes that have been made."
Note the passive tense, when the honest thing to do would have been to say "the mistakes that *I* made".
"I have said sorry.."
Yes, weeks after the mini-Budget and 3 days after her last disastrous 'press conference'.
I think the way Truss *laughs* in answer to @ChrisMasonBBC question if she'll lead the Tories into the election...won't look very funny to millions of mortgage payers. ImageImage
It's so excruciating to watch.
Like it's really all a game.

.@ChrisMasonBBC's exclnt Qs to Truss, repeated this morning, confirmed the depth of the hole she has dug for herself.
*Points out she "made it harder for people to pay their bills"
*Asks if anyone can ever believe anything she says again
Qs that won't go away, despite her laugh.

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More from @paulwaugh

Oct 20
On whether Liz Truss can turn the ship around and save her premiership, @Simon4NDorset tells @BBCr4today "there's about 12 hours to do it".
Funnily enough the naval analogy is in the latest.
The mutiny has started and the captain hasn't long left.
#WaughOnPolitics

inews.co.uk/opinion/pmqs-p… Image
One MP close to the action last night ridiculed Jacob Rees-Mogg's late attempt to tell rebel MPs fracking was no longer a confidence motion.
"It's like he was getting fucked and then shouting he wanted his virginity back. As a good Catholic, he should know that's not possible."
Read 10 tweets
Oct 19
As Shapps steps up, Liz Truss is more than ever a prisoner of her Cabinet - not the leader of it.

After an extraordinary day, tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox

inews.co.uk/opinion/pmqs-p…
'The real problem is that Truss has fracked her party as much as she’s fracked the country.'

inews.co.uk/opinion/pmqs-p… Image
Tory MP Charles Walker: "I think it is a shambles and a disgrace.…All those people that put Liz Truss in No.10, I hope it was worth it for the ministerial red box...I’ve had enough of talentless people putting their tick in the right box.”
Read 9 tweets
Oct 19
Only yesterday @SuellaBraverman was talking about a "Coalition of Chaos"....today....reports (via @MrHarryCole @PippaCrerar ) she's no longer Home Sec.
Funnily enough, I was only yesterday talking to a former minister about what a mismatch it would be to have Jeremy Hunt and Braverman in the same Cabinet.
Sounds like he felt her ressurecting the migration cap would be bad for the economy...

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Reminder that Braverman garnered a grand total of 27 votes in the 2nd round of the Tory leadership race this year.
Read 5 tweets
Oct 19
PM’s pensions promise allowed a stay of execution, not a resurrection.

She tripped up over even the low bar of expectations, but stumbles on until Halloween.

My snap verdict on #PMQs
inews.co.uk/opinion/pmqs-p…
'Looking like a kindly jailor in charge of the prison Truss has built for herself, Jeremy Hunt had the air of a man who has allowed his charge out on day release, her ankle tag of new-found fiscal responsibility always on.'
Q: "There must be people who would be better than Liz Truss, aren't there?"
James Cleverly reply is not a denial.
"If there were a unity candidate that everyone agreed upon, we would know that name of that person already. I'm not hearing that unanimity."

Read 5 tweets
Oct 19
Meanwhile, the @BBCr4today paper review gave pride of place to the Ganesh piece.
.@dsmitheconomics (via ex business chambers chief Adam Marshall) put it well here too.
And if you want to see the impact of 2010s austerity on the NHS, here is a recent slide from its finance chief. Image
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Oct 17
I was beginning to think that Truss may be resigning, but Mordaunt said the PM will turn up some time in next 24 hours and this was a non-economic issue.
So, a military/national security reason for her absence?
.@Jeremy_Hunt arrives to big cheers from Tory MPs.
.@trussliz has arrived, conveniently just as Hunt arrives. That national security reason very mysteriously ended just in time for Truss to arrive exactly as its time for Hunt to speak.
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