Truss accuses Badenoch of not telling truth about Tory failures

Liz Truss has been fighting a desperate battle to rewrite the narrative on her 45 days in office in 2022. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, is not telling the truth about the “real failures of 14 years of Conservative government”, the former Conservative prime minister Liz Truss has said.

Writing in the Telegraph, Truss said: “In a recent speech Kemi said: ‘From now on, we are going to be telling the British people the truth even when it is difficult to hear.’ If she’s not willing to tell the truth to her own supporters, the Conservative party is in serious trouble.”