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Liz Truss’s remarkable implosion has devastated the Conservatives’ poll lead despite their parliamentary majority – now is the time to build links between unions, campaigns and the left representatives in public office, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
Prime Minister Liz Truss leaves Downing Street, London following her resignation. Picture date: Friday October 21, 2022.

OVER five decades of political activity in Britain, I have seen plenty of governments that I didn’t think much of. But while there have been many unpopular administrations, it’s hard to remember any quite as shambolic and widely discredited as this one.  

With a prime minister (and two of her most senior appointments) lasting less than two months and the spectacle of Tory MPs openly laying into the government in interviews, this is a Conservative Party that is not only unpopular but not taken seriously.  

As it turned out, Liz Truss wasn’t even in the post long enough for the biography detailing her rise to power (designed as a cash-in for Christmas) to be published, let alone for the next general election.  

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