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Liz Truss has been on good form recently, not least delighting Critic contributors at their weddings. But her words in the Telegraph yesterday marked a new high in her post-office career. Someone had advised the floundering Kemi Badenoch to go on the offensive against the woman who appointed her to the cabinet. And the former PM isn’t taking it lying down.

Unlike the current leader of Britain’s third most popular political party (cruising for a confident fifth place in seats), Liz Truss says it as it really is: “Contrary to what Kemi says … many Conservative MPs would not support [reducing public expenditure] and it was their lack of support that was one of the primary problems.”

 All this fine copy has been noticed by “Steerpike” over at The Spectator: “Liz Truss has taken to the august pages of the Telegraph to attack Badenoch, accusing the Leader of the Opposition of being ‘not willing to tell the truth to her own supporters’. The gloves are coming off…” But sadly the spectacles haven’t yet been put on this morning, because the poor old soul has missed the most KAPOW! element of Truss’s punchy prose. 

“It was a fatal mistake not to repeal Labour legislation like the Human Rights Act because the ‘modernisers’ wanted to be the ‘heirs to Blair’,” the former PM wrote. “Huge damage was done to our liberties through draconian lockdowns and enforcement championed by Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings. The economy was wrecked with profligate Covid spending by Sunak. The huge increase in immigration has been a disaster.”

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