Former 49-day PM helms a Conservative Political Action Conference that’s a far cry from the glitzy US version
Liz Truss has given us all so much in recent years. A mini-budget. A laugh a minute 49 days in office. A new monarch, after the queen decided enough was enough and died two days after Liz began her Airbnb stay in Downing Street. And now she has given us one thing more. She has imported the US Conservative Political Action Conference to the UK.
And like all things Liz, it’s predictably a bit shit. In the US, CPAC is a full glitz Trump fest where all the champions of the far right go to strut their stuff and sell their merch. In Liz’s hands, it’s an altogether more drab affair with little interest from the audience. A going through the motions by C-list speakers who are well past their sell-by dates and have been saying the same things for years. Everyone would have had more fun and more surprises if the conference had been AI generated. There again, with Liz you can never be too sure.
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Former 49-day PM helms a Conservative Political Action Conference that’s a far cry from the glitzy US versionLiz Truss has given us all so much in recent years. A mini-budget. A laugh a minute 49 days in office. A new...
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