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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Liam Thorp

Keir Starmer destroys Liz Truss with brutal first question

This was always going to be a brutal session of Prime Minister's Questions for Liz Truss. But this went beyond that.

Ms Truss could not be in a weaker position after she sacked her ally and friend Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor and was forced to reverse the vast majority of the entire platform she was elected on, having tanked the economy.

Against a backdrop of growing calls for her resignation from furious Tory MPs and reports of an avalanche of letters being handed in to Conservative backbench chairman Sir Graham Brady, a weak and wounded Ms Truss gingerly stepped out for another pummelling in the Commons today.

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