Liz Truss could suffer 'record-breaking defeat' in 'Portillo moment’ of the general election

“Anyway, she has since crashed the economy. I think that eclipses everything else.”
As the election draws nearer, Conservative peer Daniel Finkelstein wonders if Rishi Sunak’s predecessor Liz Truss could lose her safe seat with a 26,195 majority “after everything that happened” when she was prime minister.
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[@chrisd924]

Liz Truss has no shame and has cost the good people of this country billions.

[@lenkapenka6976]

bet she got her cut of the PPE deals

[@HamishBanish]

Liz Truss would have been over-promoted as a primary school librarian, let alone a Prime MInister.

[@adblocker276]

Yeah, yeah but can you imagine how much worse it would’ve been under Jeremy Corbyn? SMH

[@gerryman4589]

​@@adblocker276give it rest

[@MrMatthews4040]

​@lenkapenka6976 kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4i5kq2KoJtmh7ssi=nxw4Qt-SGgimM8TV

[@michaelmouse4024]

Truss losing her seat would be hilarious... 😅

[@glennjanot8128]

Even more hilarious would be Sunak losing his seat ^^

[@catherinemartin6258]

@@glennjanot8128both 🤞🏻

[@hypsyzygy506]

THAT. IS. A. DISGRACE.

[@glennjanot8128]

@@hypsyzygy506 What is a disgrace?

[@lindacurrie8817]

Liz Truss said something about not enough cheese being exported something like that. However her statement was deranged and cognitively unbalanced when she said "that's a disgrace" Look it up. Totally bonkers. Insane woman of the highest order.

[@PassiveAgressive319]

I pray that the people of west Suffolk vote her out

[@nigelcheeseman3369]

Or South West Norfolk, where she is the candidate.

[@stevealharris6669]

@@nigelcheeseman3369 I`m glad you said that throught i`d moved moved county.

[@robaustin245]

West Suffolk as a constituency doesn't exist anymore.

[@EllaBella-76]

@steveharrison6669 •If they don’t all leave ,we shall probably all book flights let’s hope it’s the Tories /Farage departing . This Government are the stuff of nightmares, the actual campaign has been giving me migraines!The amount of money she has for 48 Days ?Whats this thing about how many days to save the west ?She couldn’t even saved our country she sent it further to the dogs ..I am not a betting person ether ..But remember the lettuce!😂

[@stevealharris6669]

​@@EllaBella-76 I could not agree more😊.

[@mrb.5610]

She cost the country £30 *BILLION* ffs.

[@JesterEric]

Gordon Brown lost that much money for the country when he sold the gold reserves. His appalling regulation of the banks cost hundreds of billions

[@OJ-jy2ex]

@@JesterEricand he was kicked out for it. Can we leave this whataboutery nonsense, as though that gives her some kind of pass! This lack of thinking is why our country is in this situation

[@mjsteier]

Cost me thousands , still waiting for the interest rate to come back down , maybe August when she has long gone

[@stephfoxwell4620]

What?. She cost us £170 billion .

[@StormmyStormmy]

Along with that dreadful chancellor should be investigated for insider trading! People were thrown under the bush by that dynamic duo and they didn’t give a 💩about the damage they caused!

[@chrisd924]

Hearing right wingers defend Rishi Sunak's performance is now just pathetic.

[@kevinrobb86]

Right wingers? lol

[@chrisd924]

@@kevinrobb86 Da Da Comrade Bot

[@mynameisleeyesitis]

True right wingers are not trying to defend that dunce

[@michaeladkins6]

Worst campaign Ever!

[@c5ris620]

Liz Truss should be completely unemployable after her short reign. The fact that she thinks she can just slide back into being an MP shows how delusional she is. Let's hope the electorate are slightly less delusional.

[@simmybear31]

No Sunak's D-day departure wasn't laziness it was DERILICTION of duty and disrespect to our Allied nations who sacrificed so much. US, France, Canada, Poland etc!

[@hypsyzygy506]

It was deliberately planned from Number 10. Not by ITV.

[@simmybear31]

@@hypsyzygy506 I know he NEVER intended to stay and that's disgusting!

[@kizzmiaz]

If every Brexit headbanger that loses their seat is the icing, this would be the cherry on top of the cake.

[@jonahallen4867]

The real headbangers are people like you who cannot explain one good reason to stay in this proven corrupt outfit . Ps ...if you can i will show my ar.. in Burtons window . ...lol... knucklehead 😅

[@aj-jc4cv]

Rishi's inconsistency on racism, he was more than happy to keep accepting donations from Frank Hester after the comments about Diane Abbott.

[@grizredford8407]

Give the Tory's 5million and you can buy the right to be racist.

[@robakajackflash]

She definitely deserves to. She's been out of no. 10 for almost two years and the country has yet to recover so why should she retain her seat?

[@ColinGreen-pi7kj]

It still won't affect her £100 k. Pension for. " Services to the Country " , ABSOLUTELY SHAMEFUL. !

[@accomuk]

I am surprised she even bothered to stand, but intelligence was never her strongpoint was it?

[@vllukens7265]

Don't underestimate the stupidity of voters in SW Norfolk. If Thomas Payne had a grave, he would have been spinning in it when she first got elected. Con James Wild in North West Norfolk needs the boot as well.

[@williamhicken1206]

The Tory reaction to Starmer and his Friday evening is disgraceful. More power to Starmer and his family.

[@ChangesOneTim]

Last-minute desperation. Shame that no journalist had the nerve to ask Sunak if he ever prioritises family time over job and if so at what times [yes of course, seven days a week between midnight and 0530 zzzzz....]

[@DonPedroTheDude]

Liz Truss's affairs were actually a fairly good guide that she was not to be trusted...

[@hypsyzygy506]

As were Blojob's.

[@ChangesOneTim]

Wow! Did she have more than just one affair in erected office?

[@denniskrust2137]

Truss losing would be appropriate. She's part of the trifecta which ruined the Tories; Brexit, Boris and Truss.

[@Ray_Winston]

TRUSS DOUBLED YOUR MORTGAGE AND HALVED YOUR PENSION,

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

The entire British nation would love to see Truss lose her seat.

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

And that undeserved pension

[@johnbriggs3916]

Reform UK can't split -- it is a limited company with 15 shares, of which Farridge holds 8.

[@gerryman4589]

@@johnbriggs3916 it's all about him and his massive ego there will be splits a more revelation

[@nigelcheeseman3369]

Attacking Starmer over the time issue isn’t just lamentable, Danny, it’s lame, like the rest of this Tory campaign.

[@gohumberto]

No doubt she'll move on and be hopeless at something else. She looks like every deputy Manger in WH Smiths but is probably under qualified for arranging the magazines correctly.

[@FranzBieberkopf]

Possibly qualified to flip burgers somewhere.

[@tomslade3365]

She end up on a NHS trust or some over overpayed scam she could always call in favrs and work for putin LOL her boss

[@Hydraargyrum]

She'll be in the HoL and feeding at the trough like her chums

[@aileenjohnson1508]

If she had only 1 competitor and it was a lettuce the lettuce would win 😂

[@spaliverpool71]

Entitled lettuce 🥬

[@michaeladkins6]

I guess a row of pillories set up to honor the last 14 years is too much?

[@seebarry4068]

Dunno why she doesn’t just jog on and live off her ex prime minister pay.

[@TheLegenDacster]

EGO.

[@kevinwalton4538]

She’s funded by a Taiwanese millionaire who has close links to the Taiwanese leadership apparently. Terrible , terrible constituency MP.

[@julianshepherd2038]

That would be worth staying up for and shouting "Ha ha!"

[@nickmiller76]

I'm hoping for a night full of Portillo moments. Got the drinks and nibbles at the ready.

[@mynameisleeyesitis]

​@@nickmiller76night off work has been booked.

[@catherinemartin6258]

Desperate act from a dying government and party 🤞🏻

[@frankcarter6427]

Losing her seat won't affect her - she'll still turn up at parliament and sit on the front bench talking baffling gibberish and claiming vast sums in expenses

[@GuzziHeroV50]

She's the Enoch Burke of parliament.

[@accomuk]

No she wouldnt be allowed in as she would not be an MP

[@frankcarter6427]

@@accomuk really? well that ruins my theory then!

[@stephfoxwell4620]

​@@accomukShe will be in the House of Lords. Baroness Truss of Rural Norfolk.

[@accomuk]

@@stephfoxwell4620 depends if Sunak puts her on his resignation Honours list...

[@Areflection4]

that's good news!!

[@sophiabee8924]

She should have been jailed. If anyone had lost their company the amount of money she did, they'd have been prosecuted.

[@mahon257]

Oh she's gone. No apologies from her. Says all you need to know.

[@stevejamson]

Lettuce hope this comes to pass (see what I did there?) 😂🤣

[@chriswills9437]

Starmer having Friday evenings off sounds like a massive productivity improvement over Johnson who allegedly had Monday to Friday off.

[@123ZURLON]

That would be a DIS-GRACE!

[@melissadiarne1118]

It wouldn’t have been a snickers, it would have been a Marathon. Yep I feel old 😂

[@MrBoliao98]

Goodness, do the Conservatives think Keir Started has the work ethics of Liz Truss? Look here, normal people care for their children.

[@seanoconnor8843]

We all need to grow up and take politics and politicians seriously

[@ChangesOneTim]

Agreed - but first the political class must learn lessons from recent history including this election, grow up and take the public seriously. The greater Labour's majority turns out to be, the more I really hope for it to be on a strong turnout. My fear is that, thanks to the serious damage politicians have caused to public trust in them, too many folk will simply not bother voting.

[@alexdonner9081]

really hope this podcast stays on after the election - its one of the best politcal pods out there

[@gerryman4589]

I hopeso but matt chorley is leaving times radio

[@momo8200]

It would be such a "shame" for the tories to lose a "Big Ideas" person such as Liz Truss, how will they manage?

[@ChangesOneTim]

She'll still have a line out to Parliament from Tufton Street😉

[@stevealharris6669]

I`ll be glad when the General election is over - i live in fear of going downtown and running into Truss especially when i`ve been lettuce shopping. Then again i`m not totally sure she can remember where South West Norfolk is. (Hello from Thetford)

[@kicka11]

If truss is re-elected then the water supply of her constituency needs to be forensically examined.

[@user-yb6eo1xp2f]

To Truss or not to Truss?

[@stoyanfurdzhev]

Not a question at all.

[@kevinjackson6387]

She’s gone 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 fantastic

[@thomasparkin259]

I truly hope we get to see the look on face if she loses, it's vindictive of me but I think it's deserved when I think of the households brought to the brink and beyond by her recklessness.

[@ChangesOneTim]

Ha! We'll get a few seconds before she's swiftly ushered out through a side door.

[@johndewhurst6609]

South west Norfolk, Liz Truss's seat has the Monster raving loonies standing with a candidate called Lord Elvis. They should have called him Lord Lettuce, Lettuce has already beat Truss once.

[@tobywiddop4817]

I've really enjoyed this podcast series. Thank-you.

[@johnburrows3385]

Seen Owen Jones interview the good people in the Truss constituency, it's hard to believe she'll lose her seat.

[@VesiustheBoneCruncher]

One of the ways society has improved, unequivocally for the better, is that it’s now expected that Dads spend more time with their kids. As a dad, I am profoundly glad of this. As someone who isn’t PM I would fight tooth and nail to protect that. And even at 5 my daughter says and thinks things that give me pause and makes me a better, less cynical person. We all know that a PM is always on call, but frankly, the societal expectation, thankfully, is that a PM absolutely should make time for their family, if for no other reason than to keep themselves sane. It’s win-win: genuinely, there is no argument around this. The PM is always on call, obviously.

[@michaeladkins6]

Hers is the 'Portillo Moment' I am most looking forward to.

[@drinksafewater]

Aw! She will be fine with a protection squad for life and a £150,000 pension p.a. - A proper Missfitt.

[@VinceLammas]

Thank you to Peter, Danny and Polly for providing "insider views" from the political parties over the months of commentary during a fascinating time. Matt has been a great host, referee and "foil" for the conversations.

[@StevenWebb]

It's intriguing; when you scrutinize someone closely, their true character is revealed. Consider the revelations about Liz, Boris, and Wishy. In the end, it turns out Kier is indeed someone who genuinely embodies a realistic, decent work ethic and family values. PS the obvious mistake I noticed after, but I thought it was rather apt so I left it.

[@corintaylor-salter2059]

What kind of people would vote for Liz Truss? How thick can you be!!!!!? Mandelson would if a proper Socialist was the alternative . . . . . .

[@Joe-og6br]

Starmer wants to spend time with his kids at the end of the week. 😮

[@michaeladkins6]

As opposed to Boris, who doesnt really know how many he has.

[@johnalbinson4641]

Shame we cannot vote out john redwood. He quit rather than being booted out.

[@nifralo2752]

David Dimbelby anchored both the EU refferndums.

[@chrismaxwell1610]

The Southgate joke was good.

[@Deano-vl4bv]

Liv Truss for PM (again) the Earth is flat.... help

[@pj1471]

A great podcast. Almost worth suffering this dreadful election to be able to enjoy it. Great episode and Danny gets man of the match, having been isolated on the right wing quite often. Many thanks to Matt, Polly, Peter and Danny for great discussion and Matt’s list of chocolate bars in line with Ofcom regulations. Great chemistry, entertaining and always fun. I vote for Truss getting the Portillo moment.

[@tonyfeld5403]

The ex public schoolers in the Tory party suddenly feel an emotional void "where was myyyyyyyy daddy?" their little child inside cries and in their sadness and anger they lash out as they remember the long cold nights in the dorm.

[@michaelbowling1362]

Portillo? Was a shock (Which is why he has a moment named after him 😂) and he's an OK guy (Didn't melt the UK economy). Liz Truss lost to a Lettuce and won't be a shock at all.

[@rajupodiyan3147]

Leaders of people know that they have power only they remain in the position 🌞🏫

[@IanScout1]

That would be so F brilliant. Bye Bye 4th July😊

[@sydnorth5868]

The fact that the host didn't know the difference between Victoria Atkins and Victoria Prentis shows just how bad the current government is!

[@paramotorhead]

She should join up with Cameron and make a tv program about pork as they both seem quite fond of it.

[@ProfessorPesca]

That light grey shirt is doing nothing for Danny’s complexion.

[@FACT3200]

Not popular? Totally incompetent you mean? 🤣

[@themuraoka]

She could open a grocery shop at the outskirts London

[@ISuperTed]

I’m sure she’ll be in a bit of a flap!

[@allanchapman7986]

To be honest I think the night of the 4th/5th July will see many a Tory Icon fall. I live in a Tory area and I believe they have underestimated how much anger there is over many issues. People see the concept of the "shy tory" and the danger of the " super majority" for the nonsense that it is. Desperate people clutching at straws and only deluding themselves! From my 96 year old mother to her great grandchildren they all want them out! Not only that but suffer as well.

[@shauncorless8965]

I do hope so a absolute chancer ,,,bring back the lettuce 😅

[@ChangesOneTim]

One chancer (and pathological liar) replaced by another chancer (within the normal scale of political lying but utterly deluded)

[@richardruff8712]

Looking forward to lots and lots of ' Portillo moments '... May be worth recording it...

[@clivethomas6864]

It would be nice to see her out of a job.

[@Napoleonwilson1973]

Good that mad pillock is my MP 🤮

[@rollingthunder4]

Sunak left Normandy early because he didn't know anybody.....

[@jimmeer]

Truss and Kwarteng need to be ejected for the sake of the rest of us. Academically bright with not a grain of commonsense between them

[@billmago7991]

Next time we see Liz, she will be hosting, Great British horse and cart journeys

[@charlespirate1]

This is smugger that The Rest is Politics

[@ChangesOneTim]

[Dr. Hannibal Lecter to Agent Clarice Starling]: "Poor, poor Liz. Tic toc. Tic toc" [smirks]. Waiting for Truss to 'do a Tamworth' and be hurriedly ushered out a side door from the declaration hall....🤣

[@FranzBieberkopf]

Anyone else noticed the antisemitism of attacking a man with a Jewish family keeping the Sabbath?

[@gerryman4589]

Yes

[@Gujratiah]

The Tories are generally hyper philo semitec. Starmer will probably raise the bar

[@christianbliss8944]

She should instead be doing charity work for the good of the community until retirement to try and make up for the damage she did to all of us.

[@ozzy-o8215]

I bet Mandy was hanging around sampling the guacamole on the deli counter in Hartlepool Tescos…fnurf

[@DavidLee-cr4xv]

All the listing of candidates is giving me Monty Python vibes

[@ChangesOneTim]

Ha! Very good! Tarquin Fin-tim-lim-bim-lim-bin- bim-bin-bim bus stop F'tang F'tang Olé Biscuit barrel [Silly Party] etc....

[@NormanTreiger]

Elections are special because of the equal worth of the votes. There is no difference between a road sweeper and a billionaire in finance; one person one vote. What ever the result , it should respected and celebrated as an expression of democracy . The people are always right but sometimes some politicians are wrong.

[@susanpettitt713]

All these people laughing in food bank Britain like its 1965

[@gerryman4589]

Torys real legacy

[@geoffreynhill2833]

How did Truss ever get into ANY party? 🤔( "Green Fire", UK)

[@jstone247]

It would be perfect if Truss lost her seat.

[@nizviz]

Liz Truss was so unpopular she was elected leader of the Tory Party.

[@ChangesOneTim]

Ha! Best-ever proof of how disconnected Tory Party members are from public opinion...or indeed from common sense. Time to change their rule book - they have the next five years in opposition to do that.

[@rememberitsallagame]

where, why, and when did you dig up Peter Meddlesome??

[@tapaarn5863]

Fingers crossed

[@broadcast-east]

We are in her constituency, On a low turnout she will get in with a reduced majority. She was around yesterday.

[@Tom_murray89]

I firmly believe anyone should spend time with their family which I believe will give him more respect

[@indexical1897]

Personally, I have always had less respect for leaders/managers who work all hours and do not have good work/life balance. You need to be disciplined in work and life; prioritising effectively.

[@davidbell7094]

David Cameron,spends most of his time,in Ibiza!

[@rossblyth2598]

Here’s hoping!

[@SamLowryDZ-015]

'Ocado - and 'success' are not two words that go together. You're more likely to see the words 'annual loss' in company accounts.

[@fulham1958]

At least Truss hasn't run away.

[@williampne]

She's not been seen in her constituency for months,she's been hiding.

[@johnmoore9862]

Day two & she’s just cottoned on.

[@tezinho81]

This Liz Truss, breaking all the records, on her way to ignominy

[@Crimson_Logic]

If you're expecting Truss to lose, it's not a Portilo moment. FFS.

[@ednorton47]

Anybody who desires a "Blair poster" for their wall is definitely a sicko and needs professional help.

[@PassiveAgressive319]

Mandelson wouldn’t know what to do in a local Tesco😅😅😅😅

[@Jessjoe1956]

I bet you know what to do in Tesco, but remember shoplifting is a crime.

[@gerryman4589]

Would any member of the house of Lords

[@PassiveAgressive319]

@@Jessjoe1956 your mum said the same thing👍

[@Jessjoe1956]

@@PassiveAgressive319 your dad might have said the same if you knew who he was.