Ian Dunt: “All she needed to do was not mess up. That was all that was required of her. Liz Truss had secured a brief moment of calm. Jeremy Hunt had settled the markets. Tory MPs couldn’t agree on a replacement. There was a window of opportunity. If she could just get through one day without catastrophically ruining everything she put her hand to, she might be able to stabilise her leadership.”
“But that’s a level of accomplishment which we simply cannot expect from her. It requires the most basic possible level of competence and is therefore miles beyond her capacity. So instead, last night provided scenes of needless self-inflicted chaos the likes of which we’ve never seen in Westminster.”
