Liz Truss: “I’d have done better than Sunak at election“

Liz Truss has said she would have led the party to a better election performance than Rishi Sunak. The former prime minister also called the ousting of Boris Johnson a “stupid move” by colleagues. In her only appearance at the Tory conference, Truss told a fringe event she believed she was the “second best” option after Johnson and would have been vindicated had her mini-budget been allowed to succeed. She added that Reform was polling at only 3 per cent when she was in Downing Street. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: #uk #rishisunak #liztruss #brimingham