Irony has been laid to rest after Liz Truss predicted that Andy Burnham will cause a financial crisis once he becomes prime minister.
On Monday, Burnham will officially replace Keir Starmer as prime minister. With no one challenging him in the Labour leadership contest, Burnham will become Labour leader on Friday, before moving into Number 10 a couple of days later.
At the same time, Liz Truss, the country’s shortest-serving prime minister ever, is speaking to deserted conference halls at CPAC GB, her answer to the MAGA-fuelled pro-Trump get together in the US.
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Whilst Truss’s post-Number 10 career sinks to the embarrassing depths it deserves, she still seems determined to become a parody of herself.
Her latest comical turn has come as she had the temerity to predict that Burnham would spark a financial crisis in the UK during his premiership.
BBC journalist George Mann wrote on X that Truss had said the UK could be “headed for a financial crisis” under Burnham, and that there would be a new prime minister before 2029.
This is coming from the woman who, in the space of just 49 days, managed to crash the pound, send government borrowing costs and mortgage rates to the moon and force the Bank of England to step in to stabilise the market and save pension funds after she announced £45bn in unfunded tax cuts alongside Kwasi Kwarteng.
So, we won’t be taking any financial lectures from the woman vanquished by a lettuce, and we’re sure Bunrham and his team won’t be either.