Liz Truss is, politically, a dead woman walking – an unelected Conservative Prime Minister without legitimacy, authority and now backers.
After that mini-Budget for the Rich, Tory MPs recognise that she could cost even more of them their parliamentary seats than Boris Johnson would have done.
The refusal to suspend or drop big bungs for the wealthiest and large corporations, when families are being battered by a worsening cost-of-living crisis, is dogmatic stupidity.
People – workers, families, pensioners and businesses – are the real victims of this Tory championing of a financially secure elite.
And the inability of Truss to accept that she is in the wrong is breathtaking.
The back-stabbing Conservative conference in Birmingham is a world away from Labour’s recent successful gathering in Liverpool.
Confident and increasingly assured, Keir Starmer and Labour look and sound like the future.
Truss and the Tories are tired, tainted and simply thrashing about. The stench of political death pervades this warring party.
Carer shame
What a scandal that carers are among the most exploited workers in Britain, too often under-paid and under-valued.
The finding that nearly a third cannot afford to live on their salary is why so many are leaving a sector where wages commonly hover around the meagre official minimum wage of only £9.50 an hour for those aged 23 and over.
The Government and care home owners, particularly the big chains and investment groups, need to recognise that care will be in crisis until it pays fairly.
Carers deserve so much better.
Runners’ high
Congratulations to everybody, from fancy dress puffers to top athletes, who ran the London Marathon.
It may have been a tough day for many runners but it’s certain that there will once again be no shortage of entrants next year.
