The Tories have trampled on renters for too long, and Liz Truss is about to feel their pain | Gaby Hinsliff

In plenty of Tory marginal seats, soaring rents are already leading frustrated voters to look elsewhere for answers

When Liz Truss met her MPs on Wednesday, the mood, by all accounts, was as if there had been a death in the family.

One MP reportedly described a terrible feeling of sorrow in the room" as backbenchers listened despondently to a leader who has barely been in office a month yet already seems broken beyond repair.

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist

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