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    Voices: The day Liz Truss went ‘full Trump’ – and embraced the deep state

    by Sean O'Grady Feb 21, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: PA

    Last week, during the ever-excellent Leicester Comedy Festival, the brilliant comedian Nerine Skinner performed her terrifyingly realistic Liz Truss parody routine – and just for a moment, I feared mortgage rates were about to go through the roof again.

    Skinner has a vague, blonde (in both senses) resemblance to Truss, and has uncannily captured that inane grin Truss puts on so disconcertingly. As Skinner reflects with a hint of chagrin, when Truss became prime minister, Skinner’s YouTube take-offs of her went viral; for the 49 days Truss lasted in No 10, Skinner prospered – the only person who emerged from that nightmare better off (aside from Truss herself, of course, who gets a retired prime ministerial

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