Truss accused of 'cheap' shooting after refusing to challenge media responsible for Boris Johnson's downfall

When Liz Truss was questioned during a campaign Conservative campaigner at the so-called 'Red Wall' in northern England which she believed to be behind Boris Johnson's downfall, the crowd responded for her.

"Media shouted several members of the public in 2019, echoing a popular accusation among the incumbent prime minister's supporters that media coverage of his law-breaking behavior during the pandemic unfairly led to his resignation.

Smiling at the crowd's response, Ms. Truss turned to event host Tom Newton Dunn of Talk TV and said, "Who am I to disagree with this great audience?"

The crowd cheered and the fifth meeting with voters in the ongoing Conservative leadership race continued.

As she left the stage at the end of the campaign, Ms Truss , the favorite to be Britain's next Prime Minister, leaned over to Mr Newton Dunn and said: "I'm sorry to say so much in the media. »

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He replied, "It's cheap and you know that."

Truss addresses the crowd in Darlington

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Earlier in the election campaign, Ms Truss accused Mr Newton Dunn, a former political editor from The Sun, to ask questions "in a left-wing way".

The host began asking a question by comparing the hundreds of books that the promises of Mrs. Truss' tax cut would save workers thousands of extra dollars they may have to pay on energy bills from next year.

"You present it from a left-wing way Tom. All the media do it all the time, it drives me crazy," she said, apparently irritated by Mr Newton Dunn's description of the tax savings as "gifts".

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I This follows an attack on the me Mrs Truss dias last week when she said her plan to cut public sector wages outside London had been 'misrepresented' by reporters. proposed a policy to save money by reducing the salaries of civil servants after an analysis revealed that the amount of savings it predicted could only be achieved by also reducing the salaries of nurses and teachers. /p>

During Tuesday's raids, Ms Truss also said she did not believe Mr Johnson had misled Parliament about his knowledge of the parties in Downing Street.

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