Joe Lycett encourages Liz Truss to enter Tory leadership race next week: ‘U shud run babe’
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Joe Lycett encourages Liz Truss to enter Tory leadership race next week: ‘U shud run babe’

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Joe Lycett has joked that Liz Truss should run in next week’s leadership election, after she stood down as prime minister following just six weeks in office. After watching Kuenssberg interview then-prime ministerial candidate Truss live in the studio, Lycett could be heard shouting off-screen: “You smashed it, Liz!” Lycett appearing on ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’ The comedian then sarcastically told Kuenssberg that he is “extremely right-wing”. I know exactly what she’s up to.” During the interview, Kuenssberg asked Lycett to be “serious”, with the comic replying: “I’m not being sarcastic.” After Kuenssberg showed a news report that argued that Truss is a “stronger” candidate “than you think”, Lycett said: “I think the haters will say we’ve had 12 years of the Tories, and that we’re sort of at the dregs of what they’ve got available, and that Liz Truss is sort of like the backwash of the available MPs. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free “I wouldn’t say that, because I’m incredibly right-wing, but some people might say that.” Birmingham-born Lycett has made a name for himself with his jokes about the Tories.

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