Liz Truss attributes the Conservative Party's disastrous election outcome to Rishi Sunak's undermining of her legacy, as she wrote in The Telegraph.

In her article, Truss revealed she had chosen to remain silent during the election campaign to prevent further damage to the party, but now felt compelled to speak out.

"The electoral price for this silence was steep, with over 250 of us paying it," she lamented, foreseeing that the British people would bear the cost of this failure in the years ahead.

Truss specifically criticized Sunak for abandoning conservative principles, accusing him of denouncing tax cuts as ineffective in stimulating economic growth. According to her, this stance not only failed to earn voter approval for reducing National Insurance but also exacerbated their defeat by perpetuating a false narrative linking global mortgage rate hikes to her policies.

The former Prime Minister, who recently lost her seat in South West Norfolk to Labour by a narrow margin, pointedly referenced her leadership's brief tenure of only 49 days, which ended with Sunak's succession.

Beyond Sunak, Truss also blamed Tony Blair's New Labour legacy, suggesting that the party's defeat had roots stretching back to 1997. She criticized the Conservatives for not sufficiently opposing leftist agendas, asserting that their election results were a consequence of acquiescing to these ideologies.

In the recent general election, the Conservatives were reduced to just 121 seats, with Labour making significant gains in traditional Tory strongholds such as Norfolk. Photo by Simon Dawson / No10 Downing Street, Wikimedia commons.