The first of twelve in the show that never ends. For all her weirdness, Truss charmed the audience most – imagine that
Welcome back my friends to the Show that Never Ends. The Tory leadership contest is only just in its third week but it already feels interminable. Timeless even. As if it’s almost impossible to imagine life without it. First we had a series of unedifying debates in which Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak – with occasional contributions from three other, long-since archived, contenders – picked fights and traded fantasies with one another.
Now we have entered a fresh circle of hell. Twelve hustings where Radon Liz and Rish! each face an hour’s worth of questions from party members, one after the other. So we don’t even get the pleasure of seeing them disagree with each other. Rather they do battle to feed the delusions of the 160,000 or so Tory members who are the only voters that count for this particular election with ever more far-fetched rightwing policies. If you can call them that.
