Through the long summer of the Tory leadership contest, Liz Truss was confronted with the same accusation that she was ‘just continuity Boris in a dress’. Today’s announcements prove this was completely untrue.
Liz Truss
In a single day, Ms Truss’s government has made two major announcements. The first was to give the go-ahead to fracking and the second was to cancel Boris Johnson’s National Insurance hike and social care levy. In an instant Ms Truss had expunged two of the cornerstones of Johnsonianism on prioritising climate change and tax levels.
The basis of claiming Ms Truss was just “continuity Boris” was largely based on the assumption the now former Prime Minister supported her bid to take over from him against his Chancellor Rishi Sunak who had delivered the fatal blow to his Premiership.