Tory grandee Ken Clarke has put the boot into Liz Truss saying he was gobsmacked when she became PM.
The former Home Secretary, Health Secretary and Chancellor said: “I was quite surprised she got into the Cabinet but then I was utterly amazed she became Prime Minister.
“The circus of politics for the last six years has become farcical and the low depths of farce were reached in the last six months until Rishi Sunak took over.”
And although the 82 year old is now a peer he told Gloria de Piero on GB News he wants to see the House of Lords abolished.
“It’s a ludicrous, inaccurate institution, particularly given our politics has now become populist and polarised,” he said.
“It's not working properly. The idea of abolishing the House of Lords and replacing it with an elected institution with proper parliamentary powers and not a weak one is something I'm entirely in favour of. I have been throughout my entire political career.”
And he revealed still enjoys a drink every day and has done since his schooldays. Even now, he rarely goes to bed without a scotch or brandy and a cigar.
"I've never had a drinking problem,” he said. “But, socially, I drink. Now as I get older, it’s less, far less, than I used to. But I'm afraid before going to bed at night, it's a late night whisky or late night Brandy with a Havana cigar.
“I find I go to bed later and get up later as I am getting into my 80s now. My lifestyle is changing, but it certainly includes a good stiff whisky or a good stiff Brandy as a nightcap.
“I’ll have red wine when I'm eating. But I only have one meal a day and a couple of glasses of wine. I was a butterball when I was Chancellor. I'm a shadow of the man I was."
