‘She’s delusional’: Roundhay voters on Tory leadership contender Liz Truss

Labour supporters Steve and Janis Scott. Janis called Truss ‘a chancer’ from ‘a long line of chancers’. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

As Leeds prepared to host the first of the Conservative leadership regional hustings on Thursday evening, people who grew up alongside candidate Liz Truss have found much to disagree with her on.

Truss went to Roundhay school, an Ofsted “outstanding” comprehensive in the leafy suburb in the north of the city. She caused outrage and indignation among local leaders with her comments about her former school, which she said “let down” children.