The Tory leadership contender has a cunning plan
Liz Truss has a policing plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.
The Foreign Secretary is currently the favourite to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister after surviving back-to-back skirmishes with Rishi Sunak in live TV debates.
Last night she once again reiterated her plans to slash tax if she gets elected as well as ‘pay down government debt’, which seems improbable.
Truss also said she would scrap the national insurance rise but commit extra funding to the NHS, which also doesn’t quite stack up.
But it was her policing policies that grabbed the attention of the Daily Express this morning.
Under a Truss administration, police would be asked to “solve more crimes” in a move that was met with widespread astonishment on social media.
Liz Truss wakes up with a start and furiously scribbles down the best idea she’s had in the campaign: tell police to solve crime pic.twitter.com/EHH02Q3loK
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) July 27, 2022
Truss’s plan for the police has been likened to Baldrick’s golden nugget ideas in Blackadder, a little like this one:
We look forward to seeing how she will get the NHS to cure ill health and the army to stop all wars.
Police chiefs across the country in collective groan… pic.twitter.com/vljDkVFtwR
— Sarah-Jayne Kenyon (@SarahJayneKeny1) July 27, 2022
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