Truss And Badenoch Reignite A Fight No One Asked For, While Ignoring The Reform-Sized Elephant

Kemi Badenoch and Liz TrussLiz Truss and Kemi Badenoch have engaged in a war of words over the weekend as they both try to define the Tory legacy.The colleagues – who worked together in multiple cabinets – are sparring over nothing other than the mini-Budget, a disastrous set of tax cuts implemented by Truss during her short tenure in No.10 which sent the economy into chaos.The problem? They’re both debating a policy from almost three years ago and ignoring the rather more pressing threat to the Conservatives –Reform UK.Rather than discussing how their party is being pushed out by the up-and-coming group led by Nigel Farage, they are currently splitting hairs over historic policies instead.Writing in The Telegraph, Badenoch claimed on Saturday that the Labour government had not learnt the key lessons of Truss’s £45bn tax-cutting mini-Budget from 2022.She wrote: “For all their mocking of Liz Truss, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have not learnt the lessons of the mini-Budget and are making even bigger mistakes.“They continue to borrow more and more, unable and unwilling to make the spending cuts needed to balance the books.”This was the first time Badenoch has publicly criticised Truss, having previously only told her shadow cabinet in private that it would be helpful if her predecessor made fewer interventions.And it was not long until her Tory predecessor hit back.Writing for the same newspaper on Sunday, Truss alleged that Badenoch is not telling the truth about Tory failures. She claimed it was a “fatal mistake not to repeal Labour legislation like the Human Rights Act”, lashed out at “draconian lockdowns and Covid spending” from Rishi Sunak as well as the “huge increase in immigration”.“It is disappointing that instead of serious thinking like this, Kemi Badenoch is instead repeating spurious narratives,” the former prime minister wrote.“I suspect she is doing this to divert from the real failures of 14 years of Conservative government in which her supporters are particularly implicated.”Truss notably avoided mentioning her own role in successive ministerial roles during that 14 year stint – including her two-month period as PM.She added: “Labour is doing the opposite of the mini-Budget, which is why the country is headed for disaster.”“If she’s not willing to tell the truth to her own supporters, the Conservative Party is in serious trouble,” the ex-PM concluded.Bizarrely, neither of them seemed willing to unpack how the Tories are being eclipsed in the opinion polls by their right-wing rivals.Even Donald Trumpsuggested the next general election will be a battle between Starmer and Farage, rather than the Tories, during his trip to Scotland last week.He said to the prime minister: “You know, politics is pretty simple. I assume there’s a thing going on between you and Nigel, and it’s OK. It’s two parties.”The fact that the Conservatives didn’t even get a mention speaks volumes.Related...Ex-Tory MP Defects To Reform Despite Urging Everyone Not To Vote Reform A Year AgoTory Frontbencher Schooled On Sky News Over Embarrassing Factual BlunderGreen Party Hopeful Hits Out At Rival's Eco-Populist Pitch With Farage Comparison

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