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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Colin Drury

‘A disaster waiting to happen’: Bury voters unconvinced by Liz Truss as prime minister

The Independent

On the streets of the UK’s most marginal Westminster constituency, the political mood on Tuesday largely reflected the weather: grim, grey and prone to occasional furious downpours.

As Liz Truss was being officially invited to be the country’s next prime minister at Balmoral, anger poured forth from people in Bury North – which voted Conservative by just 105 votes in 2019 – about the growing cost of living crisis.

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