Liz Truss was sworn in as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom about a month and a half ago, on September 6. But given the rocky start to her term, her days as head of government may well be numbered. At least that is the opinion of the British tabloid. dailystar, who takes the bets through a live recording, posted on YouTube last Friday.
In its video, the newspaper placed a salad side by side and a photo of Liz Truss proclaiming on a banner, “Can Liz Truss survive this lettuce?”
From stagnation to crisis
Therefore, the prank is already four days old. But, according to daily star in the description written for the occasion, the lettuce expires on the tenth day. This shows the confidence placed in the longevity of the Conservative Prime Minister.
Around the salad dressed in a wig, and the -intentionally unflattering- photo of the head of government, other elements adorn the table and also serve as a countdown: a clock, a cup of coffee that has been chilled for a long time, a piece of butter, as well as a little crust.
The tabloid even made it to the front page of its print edition on Saturday, October 15.
How can this mocking pessimism about the length of Liz Truss’s tenancy at 10 Downing Street be explained? Since she replaced Boris Johnson less than six weeks ago, she has gone from depression to crisis.
After founding his internal campaign between Tories in a particularly liberal budget twist, he very quickly had to revise his copy in the face of panic in public opinion and in the markets. Forgotten the tax cut for the richest, forgotten his will to reverse the rise in corporate tax decided by the previous cabinet.
Liz Truss even had to part ways last Friday – when the daily star The broadcast of the contest that opposed him to the lettuce began – of his Minister of Finance and friend, Kwasi Kwarteng, great architect of the budget project that initially led the new team.
Fronde within his in-laws
Serial setbacks, economic difficulties degenerating into a political crisis that are fueling a revolt within the British right. Philip Hammond, who was Theresa May’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (ie finance minister) between 2016 and 2019, even torpedoed the PM on the BBC on Friday:
“I’m afraid I have to say that we have ruined years and years of hard work to build and maintain our reputation as the party of fiscal discipline and competition in government.”
Challenge to public opinion
In any case, the surveys tend to prove him right. It is true that, in principle, the next British general election will only take place in two years. But the hour is serious. Thus, on Sunday, the Opinium poll, broadcast here by the guardiancalculated the gap widened by Labor over the Tories at 25 points, 43% of the projections against 28%.
Statistics that, if confirmed by the votes, would allow Labor to win 411 seats in the House of Commons (against 197 today), the current majority plummeting from 356 deputies to 137.
And voters aren’t the only skeptics about Liz Truss. King Carlos III, of whom she is the first head of government after being the last of her late mother, I received it very badly last Wednesday as an introduction to their weekly meeting.
“You again. My God. Anyway,” he said. Hence to think that the sovereign’s preference would go for lettuce…
Source: BFM TV
