Liz Truss was articulate and put Keir Starmer in his place at PMQs
Day One win
IT took moments for Liz Truss to wipe the smirks off Labour faces yesterday.
They and their media stooges have lapsed — as they always do when they lead a few polls — into complacency about the next election. Two years out, they think they’ve won already.
They assumed too that Truss would be a pushover for Keir Starmer at their first Commons face-off. To his palpable shock she was anything but.
She was articulate, answered questions directly and put Starmer in his place to roars of approval behind her.
Where Boris was all bombast and bluster, Truss spoke calmly and with steely confidence in her beliefs, whether anyone likes them or not. A decent debut.
Sadly, that’s more than can be said for two glaring own-goals on her first full day on the job.
The Bill of Rights she has shelved was drafted to make our Supreme Court truly supreme and trump ECHR rulings, including its block on the Rwanda migrant deterrent.
Its point was to make it easier to kick out foreign criminals and failed asylum-seekers. Now what?
It’s all very well new Home Secretary Suella Braverman vowing to stop the small boats landing thousands of illegal migrants on our shores.
What’s the strategy, if the Rwanda scheme cannot fly? Beg the French?
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Truss’s Government needs to be as serious about soaring crime and illegal migration as it is about rocketing bills.
And why on earth has the new PM reneged on a cast-iron pledge made in The Sun in July to our veterans?
What has she gained by scrapping the Cabinet-rank minister she promised them — and firing, in Johnny Mercer, the man born to the job?
We’re baffled, Liz.
Milk morons
HOW long will our new Home Secretary tolerate the routine trashing of public monuments and buildings by juvenile anarchists?
Yesterday Parliament was doused with white paint by crusty clowns wibbling about the cruelty of milk.
We would love to see these numbskulls banged up for six months.
But it’s too much to hope, since so many of our feeble judges sympathise with every middle-class liberal cause.
So let’s give them community service, on one condition:
They are forced to remove every molecule of that paint with a toothbrush.
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Moody blues
BORIS may feel he's been hard done to by his party. But at another blue team the boss's job is even more precarious.
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In only four months last year Thomas Tuchel transformed floundering Chelsea into winners of the Champions League.
Later they won the Club World Cup. Seven months on, he’s fired.
By the look of him he didn’t even eat an illegal cake.