“I don’t make promises I can’t keep and I am a straightforward person who tells it like it is”, Liz Truss insisted at a Conservative Party hustings earlier this month.
So was she telling the truth?
Well, Byline Times has been closely following her appearances on the campaign trail since launching her bid to become the UK’s next prime minister.
Over that period, she has made a series of entirely false statements to Conservative Party members – which have also misled the wider public.
Taken together, they suggest that Truss, who was only given the opportunity to stand in this contest due to Boris Johnson’s own dishonesty being exposed, may prove to be no more reliable than the man she is set to replace.
Here are all the false claims that Liz Truss has made during her campaign.
Truss has tried to make trust the central plank of her campaign, describing herself as “honest” and insisting that she can be “trusted to deliver” for the UK, while her supporters have used the campaign slogan ‘In Liz We Trust’.
However, her record both in Government, and during this campaign, suggests that she is not anywhere near as open and transparent as she likes to claim.
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