‘It’s all over for Liz Truss’: Prime Minister receives another blow as she loses support of influential Tory website

• Liz Truss dealt blow after losing support of Tory website ConservativeHome 
• Influential website’s editor Paul Goodman tore into PM’s economic programme
• Former Wycombe MP Mr Goodman wrote a blog entitled ‘It’s all over for Truss’ 

Liz Truss was dealt a major blow yesterday after losing the support of influential Tory website ConservativeHome.

Its editor Paul Goodman tore into the embattled Prime Minister’s economic programme after she sacked her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and delivered a brief press conference on Friday to announce the reversal of corporation tax plans.

In a blog post entitled ‘It’s all over for Truss’, former Wycombe MP Mr Goodman wrote that the Prime Minister was ‘damned’ either way, but said she looked ‘more like a ghost than a premier’ in recent days. 

Liz Truss was dealt a major blow yesterday after losing the support of influential Tory website ConservativeHome

‘She may have been in Cabinet for the best part of ten years, but she has no real experience of domestic politics at the highest level,’ he wrote.

He also accused the former chief secretary to the Treasury of appearing ‘incapable’ of communicating ‘to a public wider than the Tory base – in other words, nearly all of the wider electorate’.

Mr Goodman added: ‘Regardless of what happens next, Trussonomics, and the Truss programme on which she fought and won the leadership election, is over.’

Last week the Government abandoned plans to scrap the 45 per cent top rate of income tax for people earning more than £150,000 a year to stave off a Tory revolt, little over a week after it was announced in the mini-budget, in a damaging hit to Truss’s authority.

September’s mini budget was followed by days of turmoil on the markets, and saw the value of the pound fall against the dollar.

Source: Read Full Article