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Will Lancaster

Gary Lineker in Liz Truss quip as he compares Conservative party to Championship outfit following PM appointment

English footballing hero Gary Lineker has likened the Conservative party to English Championship outfit Watford after comparing the high turnover of Prime Ministers at 10 Downing Street to the trigger-happy behaviour of the Hertfordshire-based outfit.

The comparison comes after it was confirmed that Liz Truss had won the general election on Monday lunchtime, with the Oxford-born politician amassing 81,326 votes in her victory over rival Rishi Sunak, whose 60,399 votes were not enough to award him the title from the opinion-dividing Boris Johnson.

There is a complete lack of confidence in the Conservative party at present, with Truss' 57.4 per cent vote being the lowest wining margin of any Conservative leader of all-time in an election; and with just over 141,000 voting, you would be forgiven for believing that another leader in time in the not so distant future despite Truss ruling out the possibility of an early election in her speech.

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