Terry Jermy the Labour MP who beat Liz Truss on July 4th in one of the biggest Election swings ever has been talking to Alain Tolhurst at Politics Home about why Truss lost
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-mp-terry-jermy-on-how-he-defeated-liz-truss
Of course some of the main reasons are obvious to more or less everyone except Truss. Namely the impact of her brief period as PM.
Jermy reports hearing again and again from people that they would never vote for Truss, including Tory members and Tory Councillors. They probably did not vote for Labour but for Reform who Truss only narrowly beat into second place.
Jermy goes on to underline some of the detail about Truss was so disliked. She was the only candidate to fail to turn up to an Election hustings (she was in the pub watching football it appears). She did not do MP’s surgeries and Jermy notes that the view was that Truss was more in the US promoting her book than she was in the Constituency during the campaign.
Post the Election its normal for a defeated candidate to hand over Constituency casework to the new MP to make sure people’s issues don’t get neglected. Jermy notes that Truss hasnt done that but her team have issued two press releases attacking him instead..
It’s easy to ridicule Truss and she makes it easy to do so by her own actions and statements. However the hard right ideas she represents- albeit very badly- are a serious and dangerous current in world politics not least in the US
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