The recent betting favorite for the subsequent PM, Liz Truss, first had a PB thread about her in 2009 earlier than she even grew to become an MP.
She was considered one of a variety of potential Tory candidates who had been introduced on by a giant initiative by David Cameron to broaden the bottom of the celebration’s MPs. That is from that 2009 PB header:
There’s now a betting market on the state of affairs within the protected Tory seat of South West Norfolk the place the transfer to de-select the PPC, 34 12 months outdated Elizabeth Truss, is opening up all types of points over the powers of native events and fees of sexism. Final week the native govt determined by 19 votes to 14 to place Ms Truss’s candidature again to a particular basic assembly in a fortnight’s time as a result of it was alleged that she had not been open with them about an affair that had been broadly reported within the nationwide press three years in the past..One native councillor is quoted as saying they they need an area candidate who can get around the constituency “with no satnav” – which opens up one other line of assault towards Ms Truss and appears to recommend that some are searching for any cause to over-turn the unique choice. In doing so they’re undermining their core case about being misled…PaddyPower, has introduced a market referred to as “Naughty Norfolk” and is providing 4/5 on Ms Truss being de-selected and 4/5 on her not being de-selected.
This caught the eye of what have been then known as the “Tabloids” and for a number of days Swaffam was swarming with reporters who dubbed senior figures within the native celebration the “The Turnip Taliban”
Truss survived the hassle to deselect her and the remaining is historical past.
Mike Smithson
