Former Prime Minister's Show Mocked: "Needs Therapy"

Albin Almqvist

Updated 18.32 | Published 16.14

 

Liz Truss only served 49 days as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2022. Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP

Liz Truss is making an attempt to get back into the political spotlight – through a "Trump revolution".

But the mocking comments have not been long in coming.

"Is this a joke?" asks Piers Morgan, as the former Prime Minister launches her own talk show.

49 days. That's how long Liz Truss was in power during the intense autumn of 2022.

Now Britain's shortest-lived Prime Minister will try to get back into the spotlight.

In connection with the launch of her new social media talk show “The Liz Truss Show” on Friday, she launched a fierce attack on those who removed her from power when it happened.

Wants a Trump revolution

Among other things, she believes that it was the “Deep State” that was behind her leaving her post. She also throws a boot at the British media and says that “they are just lying about what is happening in Britain”.

According to the former prime minister, who is now without political office, a “Trump revolution” is now needed in Britain as well.

But the start of the relaunch into politics has been slow.

In The Guardian, the first episode gets one out of five stars. The reviewer calls the show a “helpless waffle from a cupboard” and believes that Truss is now making a desperate attempt to be accepted by the American right.

“Viewers need therapy”

The columnist and satirist John Crace writes that “viewers will need therapy for PTSD” and continues to mock Truss for launching the program an hour after the promised time “because Truss forgot to change the clocks in October”, according to Crace.

There have also been many reactions on social media. Journalist Piers Morgan, with 8.6 million followers on X, shares Truss’s post in which she launches her new show. In addition to five crying and laughing emojis, he writes: “Is this a joke?”.