Liz Truss has a Boris Johnson problem

Can a honeymoon be over before the Wedding March has even begun? Liz Truss might be about to find out. For while the shoo-in for the Conservative leadership has been wooing members, amongst Conservative party voters in 2019, she is already beginning to lose her appeal. For the time being at least, it seems that the more Tory voters (as opposed to members) see of Truss the less they like her.

Of course, Truss has so far been focusing on the only electorate that currently counts to her: Conservative party members. Constituting just 0.3 per cent of the electorate they like her talk of tax cuts, exiling refugees to Rwanda, fracking, winning the ‘war on woke’ as well as attacks on solar panels and the French – but care little for levelling up. But winning them over is a very different proposition to appealing to the millions of voters Truss needs if she is to lead her party to a fourth general election victory in a row.