UK ex-PM Liz Truss attempts dramatic political comeback with swipe at Rishi Sunak

 

London: Britain’s former prime minister Liz Truss, who has the ignominy of being the country’s shortest serving in the top job at just 49 days, on Sunday made a dramatic attempt at a comeback to frontline politics with an indirect swipe at successor Rishi Sunak’s policies.

Truss, whose mini-budget in September last year was widely blamed for setting the UK on a spiralling economic downturn, claims she was never given a “realistic chance” to implement her tax-cutting vision for growth.

In a lengthy essay in ‘The Sunday Telegraph’, the former party leader admitted she was not “blameless” but argued that her mandate as the Conservative Party leader was not respected and that her premiership was the casualty of the “left-wing economic establishment”.