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Will Liz Truss put an end to Tory sleaze?

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varian Wed 21-Sept-22 11:00:31

The campaign organisation UNLOCK DEMOCRACY has written to Liz Truss urging her to turn away from the sleaze, cronyism and rule-breaking which brought down Boris Johnson and address the crisis of confidence in our politics.

unlockdemocracy.org.uk/our-letter-to-the-new-pm

paddyann54 Wed 21-Sept-22 11:41:52

Thats the Liz Truss with links to Shell who is paying the energy companies over 100 BILLION that WE need to pay back? I wouldn't get my hopes up!

Grantanow Wed 21-Sept-22 11:43:09

If lifting a cap on bankers' bonuses and making sure the rich get bigger tax reductions isn't the new sleaze for Tory donors and supporters I don't know what is. And no inheritance tax for the monarch is appalling when everyone else is liable to pay it.

tanith Wed 21-Sept-22 11:43:13

NO!!!

Anniebach Wed 21-Sept-22 12:46:41

Not a hope

Luckygirl3 Wed 21-Sept-22 12:53:07

Not a hope indeed - it is entrenched in the Tory party.

Urmstongran Wed 21-Sept-22 12:59:29

Well I think she means to do well (as regards being squeaky clean and sleaze-free). Perhaps women are a bit more aware in this regard?

Policy making will always please some groups and annoy others. She needs to make some difficult decisions and not worry (as Boris did) about being popular.

maddyone Wed 21-Sept-22 13:51:35

Very unlikely. The media won’t let her.

Charleygirl5 Wed 21-Sept-22 13:53:33

I doubt if she has given it a thought.

varian Wed 21-Sept-22 17:51:22

Urmstongran

Well I think she means to do well (as regards being squeaky clean and sleaze-free). Perhaps women are a bit more aware in this regard?

Policy making will always please some groups and annoy others. She needs to make some difficult decisions and not worry (as Boris did) about being popular.

She's made a good start, pandering to her sponsors in the big energy companies by refusing to countenance a windfall tax.

Now we are all in for a big hit but at least we can console ourselves with the thought that bankers bonuses will not be capped.

Squeaky clean?????

Casdon Wed 21-Sept-22 17:59:07

Only today:
Labour has written to the cabinet secretary over what the party describes as "hugely concerning" allegations against Liz Truss's chief of staff.
Angela Rayner, the deputy leader of the opposition, wants Simon Case to investigate allegations first reported in The Sunday Times about Mark Fullbrook.
The PM's official spokesman yesterday said Mr Fulbrook had Liz Truss's "full support."
Mr Fullbrook has not travelled to New York for the UN General Assembly with the prime minister, but Number 10 insisted he was working on government business, including help for businesses with energy costs and Friday's mini budget.
Ms Rayner wrote that it was "hugely concerning to see reports over the weekend that the new Downing Street chief of staff has been interviewed by the FBI over links to an alleged plot to influence a US election. These are incredibly alarming revelations which the public will rightly want clarity on."
The FBI probe relates to allegations that financier and Tory donor Julio Herrera Velutini promised to help the former governor of Puerto Rico get re-elected if she dismissed an official investigating a bank he owned there.
From Sky News.

M0nica Wed 21-Sept-22 18:52:03

very much doubt it.