I’d have done better than Sunak in election, says Truss

[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnLiz Truss has said she would have done better than Rishi Sunak at the general election if she had still been Conservative leader.Truss was forced to stand down as prime minister in 2022, after just 45 days when her “mini budget” triggered a market meltdown.Asked at a Tory conference event if she would have done better than Sunak, who led the party to the biggest election defeat in its history in July, she said: “Yes I do.” But she went on to say that it would still have been a “tall order” to win, adding that the party “should have kept Boris”.”If the mini-budget had been allowed to succeed” then voters would have looked more kindly on the Conservatives, she argued, but it was “difficult” to get the changes she wanted through without the support of Tory MPs.The former prime minister said she would not endorse any of the four contenders vying for the Tory leadership – Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly.“So far I haven’t seen any of the candidates really acknowledge how bad things are in the country as a whole and frankly for the Conservative Party. “I think there’s a bit of Panglossian [thinking that] all we need to do is unite, all we need to do is show competence and we’ll be ushered back into office”.She urged candidates to think more radically about policies like expanding fracking and coal power, and abolishing the Human Rights Act and the Equality Act, arguing that Britain was now a “socialist country”, thanks in part to previous Conservative governments.The packed auditorium listened larg …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]