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Liz Truss is back as a rebel icon for Tories preparing for a spell in the wilderness — when they return, they may be heralding an all-out ‘flat tax’ assault on our welfare state, warns SOLOMON HUGHES

WHAT does Liz Truss’s failed leadership say about where the Tories are going? Well, it says they are going to lose the next election, so you might not think it matters.
The Tories haven’t recovered from Truss’s self-destruction. The more Rishi Sunak flails around to recover from her tanked polling, the worse he does.
But if you look a bit longer term, there is the very real danger that the Tories will return soon enough, especially if the next Labour government is — as it promises to be — uninspiring.
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