Three small turns and then goes away… The now ex-British Prime Minister takes a nose dive on the front page of the Figaro. The photo was taken on the fly of a U-turn made by Liz Truss after the announcement of her resignation, in front of 10 Downing street, where the heads of government perch, in London. In Releaseit is the next moment that the reader will discover, when the fallen leader retires.
Le Figaroso… This daily newspaper is anything but tender with Liz Truss, cruelly emphasizing that ” the one who thought she was Margaret Thatcher (twelve years of iron fist in a horsehair glove) wins the trophy for the shortest term, and undoubtedly the least productive, in three hundred years of English political history “. For Le Figarono doubt, the United Kingdom “ breathless “. Two years and three Prime Ministers after the implementation of Brexit, can the sixth world power get out of this “ infernal spiral asks this newspaper accordingly.
In the streets of London, the newspaper The Parisian met distressed Britons, such as those conservative retirees from the very upscale district of Kensington and Chelsea, and for whom Liz Truss “ was a light weight, not experienced enough for the task of Prime Minister (and who) caused damage to the country, people (being) in panic, especially the poorest »… Like this gardener who says to himself « appalled by the distressing spectacle the British people have been witnessing for months “. According to him, the Conservatives have done a huge blunder in naming her, she doesn’t have the makings of a leader “… Like this housekeeper who comes from there” to miss Boris Johnson “. Opinion not shared by the retired couple from the start, and whose wife believes that a return of Boris Johnson would be ” like getting back together with an ex ! Shocking!
Gone tory, the storm
Now it is nothing less than the immediate future of Liz Truss’ Conservative Party and, beyond that, the stability of the UK that concerns the newspaper The cross. For what was a humiliation for Liz Truss is for this Catholic newspaper, of little weight with regard to the situation in the United Kingdom: “ this deep crisis in the country which invented parliamentary democracy is not good news, emphasizes the Catholic daily. the UK historically retains an exemplary role in the exercise of freedoms and the rule of law (…) We can only hope for the return of realism and sincerity in London », implores The cross.
Britain in danger? For the French press close to the left, it is rather the Conservative Party that is in danger. In Releasefor example, a local political scientist named Rod Dacombe expects that ” if there are early elections “, this party “ be almost totally annihilated”. And precisely, this expert in British politics does not see “no end to the current chaos without general elections “.