Remember kids, spending commitments are only bad if they’re tax cuts or defence spending. That’s the new ‘conservative’ rule now. twitter.com/johnredwood/st…

Thank you Liz Truss for trying to deliver in office what you promised in the contest. That is rare.

Your agenda was and is spot on. It’s just that big govt cannot bear handing power back to the people.

It’s a great shame you were brought down. You offered a glimmer of hope 🙏🏼

That must have been a tough speech for Liz Truss, but she was confident, smiling and kept her head held high.

She had the right plan, but the communication and timing was bad.

They didn't give her a chance.

The rising awareness of the globalism is making the globalists uncomfortable.

As a result, they’re now attempting to scare people into submission by claiming it’s ‘antisemitic’ to question the status quo.

Do not be bullied into silence by these people.

Liz Truss got it right. We govern with short-term thinking, and ignore the challenges of the future. She understood that.

A good farewell speech by Liz Truss. Both liz and Kwasi deserved more of a chance than they received.

Liz Truss' agenda outlined here is still what's needed.* Unfortunately, it will take a lot of time and pain for people to realise that. Very sad. #LizTrussPM

*with some changes on the execution.

Liz Truss’s farewell speech was a sad reminder of what might have been, had she not been so badly undermined by the jackals who contrived from the very beginning of her premiership to propel their preferred candidate into office.

Yesterday the new Leader began by supporting an extra £71 billion of spending in the next five months. The government turned down the ideas I put to them in the Parliamentary debate to reduce this huge figure whilst still helping people with fuel bills.

After MPs raised a middle finger to the electorate by trying to block Brexit, Boris Johnson restored faith in the political system.

People now feel that their vote doesn’t matter, which is bad for the Tories, but disastrous for democracy in the United Kingdom.

This guy - the first time ever for a PM - fulfilled his campaign promises to the UK’s 2.2m Veterans.

It is possible to get through political life without being a shit - as people are choosing to be now. He’s complex, he’s fearless, he’s Boris. And he’ll always be a friend.

To be honest, the tactic of some Tory MPs behaving appallingly for months, using terms like “libertarian jihadists,” excluding members from a vote, installing the guy members rejected and then asking everyone to magically unite doesn’t seem like a smart move.

Please don't try and tell me Rishi Sunak's first statement as Tory leader and future Prime Minister was at all inspiring.
That was more robotic than anything we got from Liz Truss or Theresa May.
He's going to have to do much better than that to keep Boris at bay.

Sunak as PM just means 2 years of FT and Times readers patting themselves on the back, trying to undo anything vaguely controversial, ceaseless levies on the productive parts of the economy dressed up as ‘technocratic competence’, and a return to power for the civil service blob