LIZ Truss has blamed Rishi Sunak’s trashing of her "record” for the Conservative Party’s defeat in the General Election.
In an article for The Telegraph, Truss claimed that she had stayed quiet during the General Election campaign in an attempt “to prevent further damage to the party”.
However, she goes on to say that the time had come for her to “speak out” and detail the reasons she felt her party lost 250 seats.
The UK’s shortest serving prime minister said that the failure of successive Tory governments to “reverse” Tony Blair’s agenda on regulation and tax were to blame, as well as not dealing with “the wokery sweeping through our schools and institutions”.
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“This abandonment of Conservative principles not only led to him [Sunak] getting no credit from the voters for cutting National Insurance,” she said.
“But also led to an even larger General Election defeat as he continued to trash my record and promote Labour’s false narrative that the global rise in mortgage rates was somehow my fault.”
Truss became the first former PM in nearly a century to lose her seat at a General Election.
Despite resigning after just seven weeks in Number 10 following her disastrous mini-Budget, Truss claimed that the party’s failure to repeal or amend human rights legislation was also to blame for the defeat.
“We made no effort to amend or repeal legislation like the Human Rights Act and Equality Act, which embedded the Left-wing human rights culture and identity politics agenda into virtually every area of our lives,” she said.
“Too often our response was nervously to tinker, rather than to dismantle the Leftist technocratic state we were bequeathed in 2010.”
Truss’s comments add to the already fractious climate within the Conservative Party following the General Election, with prominent MPs and potential leadership candidates Kemi Badenoch and Suella Braverman already entering into a public spat.
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