Liz Truss has come a long way since spending her teenage years on protest marches shouting down Margaret Thatcher with her left-wing parents.
She now styles herself as the right-wing inheritor of the Iron Lady’s mantle as she goes on manoeuvres on a British army tank draped in the Union Jack.
Slavishly loyal to Boris Johnson, until the moment comes to stab him in the back, Truss clearly fancies herself as the next Prime Minister.
She showed a level of entitlement to match Johnson’s when she took a private jet to Australia at a cost of £500,000 to the taxpapyer.
“Lavish Liz” could have made the trip on a scheduled flight and saved a small fortune but chose to travel in style.
The decision to fly in a chartered flight at such a cost shows a foreign secretary who is out of touch with the people.
It is not the first time Truss has been extravagant at the expense of the public purse.
She recently billed taxpayers four figures for a lunch at a club belonging to a Tory donor.
At a time when families across the UK are being hammered by the cost of living crisis, this needless waste of public funds is sickening.
Sadly, it’s what we have come to expect from a party intoxicated by the trappings of power.
To them, the rules and counting the pennnies are for the little people.
Despite her left-wing roots, Liz Truss is right at home in BorisJohnson’s Conservative Party.
Now to deliver on drugs initiative
Amid our drug deaths crisis it’s accepted that those with lived experience of drugs must be at the heart of the fightback.
For too many years Scotland has stuck to the same failing responses.
Our leaders have devised one strategy after another after extensive research –then failed to follow their own instructions.
One failing has been the refusal to properly act on the lessons learned by those have lived through addiction and lost friends and family to overdoses.
The National Collaborative on drugs, announced today, is formed on high intentions, of amplifying the voices of those with lived experience.
It aims to simultaneously clarify and enshrine the legal rights that each person affected by drugs has to proper treatment, to proper housing – to respect.
This time we need to aim for real results emerging from greater understandings gained from those who know most.
Results need to be measured in terms of more people in treatment – and fewer drug deaths.
