LIZ Truss has acted like she has ‘declared war on the British people’, according to former CBI boss Lord Digby Jones.
He said: “It appears as if she’s declared war on the British people. And she’s certainly got an irreconcilable, riven party, and electorates hate divided parties.
“And so the politics is what this has to be all about. You see, she’s gone for the big one on growth, she’s gone for an increase in borrowing of £110 billion.
“She’s got unfunded tax cuts of £43 billion, yet this party says we are the party of sound money. In fact, what she’s said, is ‘I’m actually going to give a load of money away, and I’m not even going to pay for it, I’m going to borrow’.
“Now she’s got to get some early results…I’ve always say you’ve got to invest in two things, you got to invest in infrastructure; physical ports, energy, roads, railways, airports, and two, humans, you’ve got to train your people, you’ve got to get your people better skilled to become more productive, so they don’t work harder, they work more cleverly, but that takes time.
“What she should be doing is uniting her party and it’s in no one’s interest, I include the country, it’s in no one’s interest that this woman fails.”
Speaking to Alastair Stewart on GB News, he said: “They (the Tories) should be concentrating on the fact that in Keir Starmer they’ve got a man who voted for and campaigned for Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister. Why isn’t she turning her guns on that, why?
“Because she’s got to defend her position against her own party. Why isn’t she actually campaigning and moving towards saying this strategy will give you more money, the ideology is winning.
Mr Jones added: “Whatever they say in November, the mood music on the doorstep will not change.
“What we have seen this week, the damage limitation means that if there’s a general election, it wouldn’t be wiped out like Canada all those years ago when Trudeau completely wiped out the Conservatives, but you would get a Blair 97-type landslide and she’s got to stop that.
“She’s got to unify one, go after Starmer two, and then give some red meat to those MPs defending their 3,000, 4,000 majorities in all of the red wall and she’s got to park her ideology for another day and she’s got to fight a political war.
“Because if she doesn’t, then well, if I were Starmer, I’d go up to a Scottish island and sit there for two years and then come back as Prime Minister, because I’ve rarely seen such a massive, wonderful effort at political suicide in my life.”
