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I don’t have much faith in her’: Truss victory fails to excite constituents
Norfolk voters represented by the incoming prime minister greet her ascendancy with little fanfare
Jessica Murray, Mon 5 Sep 2022
It was overcast in Thetford on the day the Norfolk town’s MP, Liz Truss, was announced as the new Conservative party leader, but the lights remained off in Magda Teixeira’s baby and maternity clothes shop.
“We keep the lights off as much as possible. We’re actually closing down because bills have gone up to £300 a month – we used to pay £50-£70 a month, maybe £100 in winter,” said Teixeira, 34. “On top of that, sales have gone down massively. We spend days without a customer coming in. People are scared of spending and they’re going more for secondhand.”
She said hers is one of 22 businesses she knows of in the town, the biggest in Truss’s South West Norfolk constituency, to announce closures in recent months as energy bills began climbing.
“Seeing as the town centre in her own constituency is closing down, I don’t have much faith in her as a prime minister. But I hope she proves me wrong,” said Teixeira, who runs the shop with her mother alongside a second job as a housekeeper in a local hospital.
“Now she’s prime minister, she has to remember we do pay our taxes, we do our part as citizens, we work hard. We do deserve to be treated with respect. Things are really bad at the moment.”
Truss has represented South West Norfolk for 12 years, but there was little fanfare in the town upon her appointment on Monday.
“I don’t know how people around here will feel; not many people have ever met her,” said Ian Hilton, 60, the owner of J Jones butchers on the high street (named after the butcher’s van in Dad’s Army, which was filmed in the area and is a major tourist asset).
“She’s been in here twice. She’s a nice enough lady, so I’ve only got good things to say, but we’ll have to wait and see what she’s like,” he said. “She’s not going to be around as much now as she’ll be moving to Downing Street – maybe she’ll give me the meat order.”
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Liz Truss wins Tory leadership race to become Britain’s next PM
Foreign secretary defeats Rishi Sunak, winning 57.4% of Tory members’ votes to former chancellor’s 42.6%
Pippa Crerar Political editor, Mon 5 Sep 2022
Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister after beating Rishi Sunak in the bitterly fought Conservative leadership contest.
The foreign secretary, who won 81,326 votes (57.4%) of Tory members to the former chancellor’s 60,399 (42.6%), takes over from Boris Johnson, who was ousted by his own MPs earlier this summer.
But the euphoria of victory will quickly give way to the hard reality of the economic challenges ahead, with the country gripped by a cost of living crisis leaving families struggling to pay their energy bills this winter.
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Gautam
., not so for the hypersensitive brits
