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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Liz Truss says nothing at all, and says it really badly

Liz Truss at the Birmingham Tory party conference on stage
Truss looked towards the wings as if begging for help and her hands chopped the air like a 1960s TV puppet. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/EPA

Well, what would you have said? You’ve tanked the economy, your government is in meltdown and you’re 30 percentage points behind in the polls. Just think how much worse it could have been had you not had to suspend all government activity for 10 days of national mourning after the Queen’s death. “Sorry” might be a start. Or even, “I resign.”

Liz Truss took a different approach. One with no empathy, no understanding of the occasion. Oblivious to the fact the Tory party conference had morphed from mayhem to abject chaos. Don’t mention the war! Or maybe she was stuck in the denial stage of grief. Unable to accept the reality.

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