Liz Truss has warned that the Tory Party is at risk of dying out as the former Prime Minister suggests that Reform UK could represent the Right.
Truss criticised Rishi Sunak at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe show as she expressed her dislike for her successor.
She told the audience that Reform UK could replace the Conservatives as the party representing the Right.
Nigel Farage could work with the Tories if the party recognised the need to break loose from “consensus” politics.
When asked whether the “Conservative Party could effectively die”, the former PM responded with a blunt “yes”.
Truss told the audience: “I think if the Conservative Party wants to survive – and I think there is a real question about whether it does survive, or whether or not Reform becomes the party of the Right in Britain – it needs to advocate for genuine change, and it needs to be prepared to say what we got wrong in the last 14 years not to deliver that change.
“I’m hearing too much from candidates saying ‘we need unity’ or ‘we need to dampen things down’. I think that’s completely wrong – that’s not where the country is.”
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The Prime Minister’s spokesperson has criticised remarks by Elon Musk after he claimed that “civil war is inevitable” following violent outbursts across Britain.
The billionaire responded to a clip of protesters aiming fireworks at police.
Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said there was “no justification” for Musk’s comments.
They added that there was more that social media companies “can and should be doing”.
Liz Truss shares ‘dislike’ for former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
Liz Truss
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Ex prime minister, Liz Truss has slammed her successor as she explains that she doesn’t “get on with him personally”.
Speaking about Rishi Sunak at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, she said: “I’m a pretty honest person. I don’t get on with him personally.
“I haven’t spoken to him since he entered Downing Street, pretty much.
“I don’t share his politics and I think he was disingenuous during the leadership contest and, frankly, he said many things I don’t approve of while he was prime minister, including attacking my record.”