Liz Truss and Jeremy Corbyn still haunt British politics
Two former leaders that their parties would rather forget
Welcome to the haunted house of Westminster. It is a year since Liz Truss left office, after serving as prime minister for 49 days. Britons are going to keep hearing about her for a lot longer than that. At the Labour Party’s conference this month, few shadow-cabinet ministers missed a jibe at her expense—and, by extension, at that of her successor, Rishi Sunak. The message: that he is weak and she is still running the show. “We all know that he’s just Ken in her Barbie-world,” said Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Ghosts at the feast”
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