One month into this PM’s reign and already the chatter is about how to remove her
Liz Truss at the Conservative party conference last week: ‘Never in the field of British politics has a leader become so staggeringly unpopular in such a spectacularly short time.’Liz Truss at the Conservative party conference last week: ‘Never in the field of British politics has a leader become so staggeringly unpopular in such a spectacularly short time.’Last modified on Sun 9 Oct 2022 17.
Having tasted the blood of the prime minister and chancellor, the rebels have now started to organise against an attempt by the Treasury to make real-terms cuts to welfare. We have reached a surreal stage of the implosion of the Tory party when Nadine Dorries feels qualified to attack “cruel” cuts and lambast Ms Truss for “Even before a conference of internecine conflict, there was a fundamental fragility to the Tory leader’s position.
There are two potential sources of salvation for a prime minister in such a precarious parliamentary position. One is to be popular. Most Tory MPs never much trusted Ms Truss’s predecessor, but they indulged him for a very long time because they thought he knew how to harvest votes. Only when it was incontrovertible that he had become toxic with the electorate did they act to remove him. The public wereon being hitched to Ms Truss and are already clamouring for a divorce.
Instead of assembling a broad church cabinet, Ms Truss is high priestess of a narrow sect. She purged almost everyone who had not been on her team, especially anyone associated with Rishi Sunak, the more popular choice among Conservative MPs. She packed the cabinet with close friends, ideological soulmates, hard rightists to whom she owed campaign debts and some Johnsonites to try to keep them onside. “I used to say Boris’s cabinet was the worst since world war two,” says one senior Tory.
There will be more anarchy when MPs return to Westminster. Since the maxi-disaster of the mini-budget, Ms Truss and her chancellor have been scrambling around for ways to restore their credibility with financial markets. That means trying to make their sums add up. Desperate not to make any more humiliating about-turns on their unfunded tax cuts, they are looking to take the blade to spending.
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