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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Amid prison break and collapsing schools, Tory backbenchers pray for the torture to end

Rishi Sunak looks at a microscope.
Rishi Sunak stares into the abyss. Photograph: Reuters

Things we’d quite like to see. It’s been almost exactly a year since Liz Truss became prime minister. Since her departure 49 days later, she has made just two appearances in the Commons. Two more than her partner in crime, Kwasi Kwarteng, admittedly, but just two nonetheless. Both were in debates on Ukraine. For reasons best known to herself, Liz believes she has played an integral part in Ukraine’s war with Russia. Without her support, Volodymyr Zelenskiy would have surrendered long ago.

So to mark the anniversary, it would be nice if Truss could emerge from hiding and update us on what she’s been doing. Who knows, she might even be leading the offensive to retake Crimea? That’s if she could spare the time from posing as a tank commander for her Instagram account. She never could resist when she was foreign secretary.

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