Who will succeed Liz Truss? It doesn’t matter: each Tory MP is as guilty as the last | Owen Jones

The party has a knack for reinvention – we can’t let them pin it all on one unpopular leader, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

and ensured that restrictions were delayed in autumn 2020, only for them to be imposed more harshly and for longer than might have otherwise been the case when infections spiralled out of control. Sunak isn’t a grownup in the room; he’s another of the establishment’s guilty men.

Penny Mordaunt and Ben Wallace – the two others now touted as prime ministerial successors – may be presented as “cleanskins”, but they too backed the slash-and-burn economics that has left Britain poorer in the midst of a productivity crisis, with creaking infrastructure and flailing public services. And this is why we can’t let Truss be painted as some kind of anomaly or abomination. This was no spasm, no ideological flight of fancy, but the logical endpoint of 12 calumnious years.

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