BIG STORY We now know that the new leader of the Conservative Party, and Prime Minister of the UK, is Liz Truss. With the Conservative Party having been in complete turmoil, Labour ought to be making hay from such upheaval, especially with the manner of Johnson’s resignation. However, their lead in the polls is miniscule. This leaves much of the country asking…
SO WHERE IS THE OPPOSITION? Alan Wares attempts to unravel the unravelable…
Of course, the Truss campaign may well be largely forgotten by the time she enters No.10. It’s one thing appealing to your grassroots party membership; it’s another issue governing the world’s sixth largest economy. Liz Truss cannot stray too far from the Conservatives’ 2019 Election Manifesto in terms of what she wishes to get done, and this will likely taint Truss - especially as she has been party to what has gone before.
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And what ‘went before’ was something never seen in politics in the UK; it transcended party politics, and went way beyond previous Westminster playground petulance. It is of no concern or consideration that the incumbents are the Conservative Party - that’s largely irrelevant - nor that many members of the party now feel they have no voice, this has been an administration of breath-taking hubris and corruption.
From wilful misleading of Parliament, to outright lying to Her Majesty the Queen; from the cost of living crisis to unlawful multi-billion pound contracts being handed out to the most inappropriate companies; from an ambivalence to their own lockdown laws, to a blatant disregard for their own international treaties. And more besides. And all of this raises an even bigger question, pertinent to the UK population as a whole - where is the Opposition?