Liz Truss is back. The ex-prime minister hosted a new current affairs show last night on J ust The News , a multi-platform outlet. She’s not the first ex-PM to try her hand as a TV star. After Harold Wilson resigned, he briefly compered Friday Night, Saturday Morning , a BBC chat-show, which was considered a failure. Liz’s debut performance was a mixture of invective, self-justification and political brainstorming.

She opened with a barrage of bitter rhetoric.

‘Britain is going to hell in a handcart,’ she announced, before adding coyly, ‘despite the valiant efforts of a certain prime minister in 2022.’

She laid into the ‘fake news BBC.’

‘When they’re not lying about Donald Trump, they’re covering up sex criminals in their own midst.’

She accused the Green lobby of wrecking middle

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