Liz Truss and Her Tiny Target Audience
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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Tory Party Leaders Can Never Accept That They Were Wrong
This is not yet a pitch to the wider electorate, as it would have had to have been if she was still prime minister. She chose instead spectator television which is watched by some on the Conservative party kind of trussite wing. So this tells us a lot about her thinking and the thinking of her followers at this moment. This is partly, I think, an attempt to cause trouble for Sunak. It is partly to put her case and by the way, leaders can never accept publicly or really to themselves that they were wrong in a way that kind of matches the scale of the crisis that they brought about. Tony Blair asked him to apologise for the war in Iraq. That famous thing
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