DAN WOOTTON: Liz Truss must show she's Iron Lady II

DAN WOOTTON: Fishy Rishi Sunak’s loss is a defeat for the Boris betrayers, political establishment, lockdown fanatics and dangerous globalists. Against the odds, Liz Truss must show she’s Iron Lady II and take back control of Britain

On a day for small mercies, let’s at least rejoice that Sunak cheerleader Matt Hancock’s hankering for a Cabinet comeback is now about as likely as the disgraced former Health Secretary and his mistress winning Best Kiss at the MTV Movie Awards.

Indeed, it’s Fishy Rishi’s defeat I’m celebrating today far more than the victory by Liz Truss, who needs to immediately channel her inner Thatcher if she has any hope of triumphing over the dark forces already working to destroy her.

This was not a leadership campaign I wanted or that the country needed.

I’m convinced it will end up being seen as an anti-democratic political folly by restless Conservative party MPs, so trapped in their Westminster bubble and influenced by the Boris Bashing Corporation that they lost all perspective.

But Sunak’s comprehensive rejection by the members of his own party should be taken as a harsh lesson, too.

Spending eight months secretly undermining Johnson as Prime Minister at a time of crisis when you’re meant to be working to save the country from financial ruin as Chancellor was, quite rightly, never going to be accepted by Tories.

The bloke even registered his Ready For Rishi website in December, for God’s sake, and fellow Cabinet ministers report he made it difficult to get anything of note through the Treasury from that moment on.

While the PM should have had the balls to sack him, the Boris betrayers have learnt the hard way that loyalty matters.

Liz Truss needs to immediately channel her inner Thatcher if she has any hope of triumphing over the dark forces already working to destroy her

Sunak’s comprehensive rejection by the members of his own party should be taken as a harsh lesson, too

It’s delightful to see the political establishment, the civil service blob and the vast majority of the MSM so aghast today that Truss upset their plans of a Sunak premiership and a return to pre-Brexit business as usual.

Not to mention the dangerous globalists of the World Health Organisation, United Nations and World Economic Forum who want to assert even more control over British politics and saw Sunak as one of them.

Sunak’s comprehensive beating is also a one finger salute at the lockdown fanatics like Hancock who intended to unleash another round of scaremongering and new restrictions this winter.

While Sunak tried to use the latter stages of his campaign to re-write history by farcically presenting himself as some sort of anti-lockdown hero, he spent over two years nodding through every ludicrous freedom and economy-destroying measure without a mere hint of disagreement.

Truss was locked out of Covid decision-making, as the special Cabinet group that made the calls that mattered featured only the PM, Sunak, Michael Gove and Hancock or latterly his replacement Sajid Javid.

For what it’s worth, I know for a fact that Truss was opposed to most of the civil liberty-sapping restrictions.

She tried to make that clear during the leadership campaign by ruling out any future Covid lockdowns, something Sunak has always refused to do.

But now the same sinister influences who wanted Sunak in Number 10 are going to do everything possible to bring down Truss, emboldened by their success in deposing Boris.

Even though I supported her campaign and loved most of her policy positions, the odds are stacked against her.

Truss must immediately transform into Iron Lady II to stare down the elites and take back control of Britain.

For what it’s worth, I know for a fact that Truss was opposed to most of the civil liberty-sapping restrictions

To do that, she’s going to have to overcome policy challenges in an uncompromising fashion certain to upset all the usual suspects and result in day after day of negative headlines on the Beeb, ITV News and Sly News (sic).

On energy, short-term intervention is only acceptable if there’s a medium and long-term plan to ensure the UK is never reliant on outside forces for our electricity and gas again.

Truss declared yesterday that ‘sticking plasters and kicking the can down the road will not do’ and I couldn’t agree more.

But that means slowing the deranged march to Net Zero to ensure a combination of fracking, North Sea oil extraction and nuclear power allows us to be self-sufficient.

As even Elon Musk admits, technology will catch up eventually, but we are not ready to contemplate a world without fossil fuels, no matter how many Just Stop Oil loons glue themselves to the motorway.

On that note, the streets of Lawless Britain are now so dangerous that folk reluctantly accept that crimes including robberies, muggings and burglary have been effectively decriminalised.

Meanwhile, our increasingly woke police forces splash cash on painting their cop cars in rainbow colours and policing politically controversial tweets.

Truss cannot underestimate how this breakdown in civil society puts a future Tory victory at risk – law and order must be restored to the streets of Britain if she wants to win the next election. But no issue outside of the cost-of-living crisis is as important as the invasion via the Channel, which is now a national emergency with illegal migrants arriving from France in their thousands by the week.

The Rwanda plan hasn’t worked and Truss must embolden her new Home Secretary – expected to be the brave Attorney General Suella Braverman – to leave the European Court of Human Rights so we can control our borders in the manner expected after Brexit.

The tax burden on hardworking Brits, the biggest since World War Two, must be immediately decreased.

The NHS must be completely reformed to stop it becoming an under-performing black hole sucking up an astonishing 45 per cent of all state spending.

The civil service must be ordered off their Peloton bikes and forced to return to the office, putting an end to the disastrous Covid-era work from home consensus.

Scheming Nicola Sturgeon’s ridiculous referendum plan must be stared down.

Conservative Party Chairman Andrew Stephenson (left) and Liz Truss (right) pictured this afternoon

And the war of woke must continue at pace, as institutions are increasingly burdened with politically correct diktats.

Start by decriminalising the licence fee poll tax that continues to fund the BBC, an organisation so corrupt in its hatred of the Tories it allowed the far-left comedian Joe Lycett to hijack its new Sunday morning political programme to mock Truss the day before she was announced as PM.

Trans extremism must be defeated so the rights of biological women are protected.

In fact, all identity politics should be cast aside. Sure, it’s ironic that Labour, a party so obsessed with diversity quotas, has never had a woman as leader, just as the Tories put into office their third female Prime Minister.

But all that matters is that the best people are in the right jobs.

To me, that means Truss being bold enough to grant senior positions to – heaven forbid – a trio of old straight white men in Brexit hardman Lord David Frost, former leader Iain Duncan Smith and financial brain John Redwood.

None of this is going to be straightforward for Truss, a far easier target than Boris, the man who delivered the Tories their biggest electoral victory in three decades and then got Brexit done as promised, only to be undone by the unholy lockdowns forced upon him by the blob.

She’s going to need to be Thatcher on speed to survive, especially with the ‘Bring Back Boris’ campaign already spluttering into action.

But, as the country faces an unprecedented winter of discontent, any patriot who believes in the future of this United Kingdom, must will Truss on to succeed.

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