Liz Truss hasn't met a water boss over sewage dumping in two years in environmental post

Liz Truss held no meetings with bosses the dumping of raw sewage in two years as environment secretary, despite the practice being ruled illegal.

The likely next prime minister faces new questions over her responsibility for the sewage scandal after records revealed her only talks were to discuss a bug related to severe stomach ailments.

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Labour called the lack of meetings 'beyond all' belief," accusing the Tory leadership favorite and her party of "treating Britain like an open sewer country".

Feargal Sharkey, clean water campaigner and former musician, told The Independent: "It's absolutely shocking - Truss has acted like an absentee landlord while water companies tapped a national resource.

"The government manipulated the system to hand over pollution control and monitoring to the water industry, while the regulator was like a 12-year-old kid smoking behind the...