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Liz Truss appeared to be channelling her inner Boris Johnson as she stepped out of No10 in her running gear in the midst of widespread criticism of her mini-Budget announcement last week. The mini-Budget, announced by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng last Friday, as been blasted for providing major tax cuts for the richest in the UK, and has been followed by the British pound’s value plummeting to its lowest level against the US dollar in history.
Mr Johnson was frequently spotted running around Westminster and once in Manchester, in outfits that attracted a great deal of bemused responses.
However, it seems unlikely that Ms Truss’s running gear will be sufficient to overshadow the looming crisis emerging within her own party, as reports emerge of Tory MPs submitting letters of no confidence in the new PM just a week before the Conservative party conference is due to commence next week.
The Conference, an annual event that takes place during the party conference season, when the House of Commons is in recess, will start this Sunday, October 2, in Birmingham.
A former Tory minister did not mince words when he predicted the future of Ms Truss’s government, telling Sky News: “Liz is f*****. She is taking on markets and the Bank of England.”
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Ms Truss’s response to the political crisis now surrounding her party will further indicate how similar she is to her predecessor beyond their habits of popping out for a run around the office.
A Sunak-supporting source told the Guardian: “She truly is the heir to BoJo.
“Her team cut and paste policy, put something out in black and white, claim it’s been misinterpreted, and get Brandon [Lewis, a key ally of Johnson and now Truss] out to poop-scoop the next day.”
Like Mr Johnson, Ms Truss had also avoided close scrutiny during the leadership contest that saw her way into No10.
Mr Johnson avoided a grilling by the BBC’s Andrew Neil, unlike his rivals in the contest, while Ms Truss similarly refused the broadcaster’s offer of a sit-down interview with Nick Robinson – something which Rishi Sunak attended.
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However, their economic strategies are at odds with one another.
Ms Truss’s policy is explicitly focused on driving economic growth through low taxes, with less of a focus on the specific distribution of wealth, and more about generating more wealth overall.
She told the BBC: “To look at everything through the lens of redistribution I believe is wrong because what I’m about is about growing the economy and growing the economy benefits everybody.”
A much-touted part of Mr Johnson’s economic policy, meanwhile, was in what he called “levelling-up” the north of the country – specifically due to the unequal distribution of “prosperity”, saying: “The last few decades have seen increased prosperity in London and the South East, but without commensurate improvements in the rest of the UK. The primary objective of this government is to change that.”
In one immediately apparent break with her predecessor, Ms Truss has already pledged to reverse Mr Johnson’s rise in National Insurance.
According to the Evening Standard, next week’s Tory conference is likely to focus on the cost-of-living crisis, the mini-budget, the current war on Ukraine and Liz Truss’s fracking plan, which was first mentioned in the 2019 manifesto.
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