Liz Truss may have been Britain’s shortest-ever prime minister, but she’s still trying to land her pals top jobs in the House of Lords – and it’s sparking fury.
Truss Pushes Peers Despite 49-Day Disaster
Despite lasting just 49 days in office, Liz Truss has put forward a list of former aides and supporters for peerages. They include Matthew Elliott, Jon Moynihan, Ruth Porter, and Mark Littlewood. But Labour and the Lib Dems want Rishi Sunak to block these appointments.
Mini-Budget Blame Game
Truss’s ill-fated mini-budget, cooked up with Kwasi Kwarteng, went down in history as a financial fiasco. Mark Littlewood, head of the free-market think tank Institute of Economic Affairs and former Lib Dem press spokesman, wryly dubbed it a “boost-up budget.” Meanwhile, Ruth Porter, once Truss’s deputy chief of staff, works at a lobbying firm that helped Truss clinch the Tory leadership.
Opposition: ‘Co-Conspirators’ Shouldn’t Be Honoured
Opposition MPs have hit out at the peerage nominations. Wendy Chamberlain, Lib Dem chief whip, slammed the picks for showing “a stunning lack of humility” amid the economic chaos they helped cause. Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner branded the nominees Truss’s “co-conspirators” who “wrecked the economy.”
