Truss picked ‘cronies off backbenches’ for cabinet, says Heseltine
by Peter Walker Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#64ARK)
Former Tory big beast' says PM needs to appoint ministers who know what the heck they're doing'
Liz Truss packed her cabinet with cronies off the backbenches" rather than competent ministers with a range of views, and appeared to have no coherent plan behind her mini-budget, Michael Heseltine has said.
The ex-deputy prime minister and former senior Conservative, who sits in the Lords as an unaffiliated peer after being suspended from the party in 2019, also predicted that Truss's chances of winning the next election were looking pretty bleak".
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