Liz Truss’s aides are likely to be trying to shield her from the comment pages of national newspapers on Wednesday morning as she prepares for her speech at the Tory conference. They do not make encouraging reading for the prime minister, even from the usually friendly Conservative press.
In the Times, Danny Finkelstein, a Tory peer and former adviser to multiple governments, warns the party must brace for a rout worse than 1997. He says: “The Conservatives aren’t certain to lose the next election but we have reached the point where everyone in politics expects them to. The point where the political editors might prefer lunch with the opposition than the government.”
