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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Laughter fills the pauses as blank Liz Truss is let out to play leader

Liz Truss during PMQs
‘I’ve been clear,’ said Quaalude Liz. She really hadn’t. She never is. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament/AFP/Getty Images

It was excruciating. Of course it was. It was never going to be otherwise. Liz Truss is finished. Her MPs know it. The country knows it. We’re all just filling in time waiting for a definite sell-by date. Waiting for the Tory party to do the humane thing.

So much for compassionate conservatism. Right now the kindest thing anyone could do is switch off Librium Liz’s life support. Instead they let her stagger on, humiliating herself more by the day. And all because no one can yet work out how to replace her. Or with whom.

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