A Nottinghamshire MP has blamed a "long few days" for forgetting the name of the current prime minister and confusing Liz Truss with one of the her predecessors - Theresa May. Lee Anderson, Conservative MP for Ashfield, went ahead to praise the prime minister in an interview following Ms Truss' party conference speech in Birmingham.
He commenced his interview and hit out at the "gutter press around every corner trying to cause problems for the party". The Conservative MP went on to praise leader Ms Truss for a “pretty good” address, and how she “gets better and better every time I see her”.
“I think we’ve made the right decision in the end to vote for her," he added. “We had Brexit, we had Boris, we had Corbyn three years ago and now we’ve got Theresa May it’s a different ball game altogether."
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The gaff was flagged by interviewer Harry Horton of ITV, who reminded him that the prime minister is now in fact Ms Truss. Anderson apologised for the gaff, adding: “My mistake, it’s been a long few days.”
It comes after Tory MP Mr Anderson claimed earlier this week that the government has not made a U-turn on the decision to reverse a cut to the highest rate of income tax. Mr Anderson made the comments as he spoke to reporters at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
“It’s not a U-turn, it’s a change of direction. That’s what it is, a change of policy,” he said. “I think it’s the right thing to do, many colleagues here weren’t happy with that tax cut.”
He has also questioned the existence of food poverty and said the UK will only have a full economic crisis once Wetherspoon pubs are empty. Mr Anderson's comments have previously caused anger after he said that people use food banks because they can’t “cook or budget”.
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