Question Time: Piers Morgan says Truss is ‘done’
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Despite the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng insisting that he and Liz Truss are “not going anywhere”, opinions in Scotland were vastly different. The first question of the programme came from audience member David Douglas who asked the panel: “Can Liz Truss unite her backbenchers and in turn calm the market, or has it gone too far already?”
Though MSP Douglas Ross, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives admitted that the beginning of Truss’s leadership “hasn’t gone as planned”, he still fully supports the Prime Minister and the Chancellor.
However, the rest of the panel were less forgiving with Anas Sarwar, leader of Scottish Labour, saying that the pair are “finished” following “yet another week of a Government in total chaos”.
The frustrated minister said: “The reality is Liz Truss is finished. Kwasi Kwarteng is finished.
“I hope that people have woken up across this country and it means the Conservative party is finished as well.
“They have exposed in a matter of weeks that this is a political party that is now out of ideas, out of touch, lying, cheating, economically illiterate, and morally bankrupt.”
According to recent polling from YouGov, it appears that the nation may have ‘woken up’ to the realities of the current iteration of the Conservative Party as Labour are shown to hold a 28-point lead over the Tories.
The latest results of voting intentions for a general election show that Labour have a 28-point lead with 51 percent while the Tories have 23 percent support.
Mr Sarwar discussed the increased use of foodbanks by parents, the struggles of households to afford their energy and other household bills and called it “unforgivable”.
The Minister said: “It is completely unforgivable and I hope when people get to that ballot box at the next general election they will vote for a meaningful change across this country to get decency back into our politics, to get compassion back into our politics, to get values back into our politics and people making decisions about what is right for the people, not what is right for individual politicians and their flawed ideology.”
Assistant editor of The Spectator, Isabel Hardman was also on the panel and when answering the question, she agreed that the Prime Minister and the Tories are in a difficult situation.
“I think it’s very hard to see how she can do either or both of those things. I think she has framed herself as somebody who takes decisions without thinking them through and then reverses them,” she said.
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This comment comes a few hours before Mr Kwarteng revealed he was departing Washington early to return home amid expectation of a major U-turn on his mini budget.
Ms Hardman added that “she has lost the confidence of her backbenchers” and that since the final months of Boris Johnson, “it has felt like a party that is longing for a spell in the political equivalent of rehab.
“They’ve run out of ideas…it has become less governable; it’s also running out of people with the ideas to lead it.”
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