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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Hamish Morrison

Liz Truss: School bullies called me 'Haggis Basher' over my Scottish accent

Liz Truss, inset, has claimed her classmates mocked her Scottish accent when she moved to an English school

TORY leadership hopeful Liz Truss has claimed she was branded “Haggis Basher” by at school after her family moved from Scotland to England.

The bookies’ favourite to become the next Prime Minister, who lived for a time in a well-off part of Paisley, Renfrewshire, said she had a “very Scottish accent” when she moved to Leeds as a child.

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