'Crackers' Truss Would Be An Even Worse PM Than Johnson, Says Cummings

Liz Truss would make an "even worse" prime minister than Boris Johnson, former Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings has said. The strategist, who has been pushing Conservative MPs to oust his former boss, said the foreign secretary was "as close to properly crackers" as anybody he had met in parliament.

- Adam Forrest

Despite the steady flow of backbenchers calling for change at No 10, Mr Cummings said many Tories had convinced themselves there was no one better than Mr Johnson to lead the party. "The Tory party itself is quite rotten now and the sign of that is that they can't think of anyone better than Boris, who's clearly just completely shot," he said in an interview with the Unherd website.

"They are collectively saying, 'If we get rid of him, we might get somebody worse'. It says a lot about the state of the Tory party." He added: "And they actually could get somebody worse: Liz Truss would be even worse than Boris. She's about as close to properly crackers as anybody I've met in parliament."