If today’s launch by the leader who was outlasted by a lettuce is the answer, what on earth was the question?
Roll up, roll up – roll up a fat one for the launch of the Popular Conservatives, apparently a new vehicle for “the Trussite wing of the party”. I know what you’re thinking. Wing? WING?! Given everything that happened, surely Liz Truss can’t boast a wing? By rights, the wing it would be most analogous to is the type found floating amid other debris somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Instead, it seems to be holding a launch in central London.
In advance of the event, a spokesperson for Truss said: “Liz remains very popular with the grassroots in the country and always enjoys engaging with them.” A statement that makes me picture Truss lying down on a lawn, burrowing her face in it, and doing her cheese riff to the roots of the grass. Surely a less deranged image than the one where she’s a national treasure.
Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist
