TOM EATON | Despite Truss’s short, swift debacle, the UK is nowhere near as politically bankrupt as South Africa
Johnson returning to replace Truss as UK prime minister is not unlike a scene from Texas Chainsaw Massacre
20 October 2022 - 20:16
I don’t blame South Africans for staring in wonder and delight at the spectacle of Liz Truss resigning after 44 days in office: it’s so rare for us to see accountability, we’ll take it in any form we can, even if it’s just a B-grade nobody being thrown under that bus Boris Johnson used to lie about, the NHS and Brexit...
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