Liz Truss fails Tony Benn’s democracy tests
On Laura Kuessenberg’s Sunday morning politics programme Liz Truss was asked who had voted for her economic policy. There was a prolonged silence after which Truss asked Kuessenberg to clarify the question. In doing so Truss failed the second of Tony Benn’s democracy tests.
The late Tony Benn had a five tests of the legitimate democratic authority of those he came across:
What power have you got?
Where did you get it from?
In whose interests do you exercise it?
To whom are you accountable?
How can we get rid of you?
Not perhaps what we’d expect from a Church and King PM
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