Liz Truss has embraced Brexit absolutism with the zeal of the convert. Having voted Remain in 2016, the favourite in the race for Conservative leader, pledged to scrap all remaining EU laws by the end of next year if she became prime minister.
Truss’s convenient conversion to the Eurosceptic cause has played well with right-wing Tories. The secretive Tory backbench European Research Group (ERG) was firmly behind ‘Liz for leader’.
But Truss’s newfound enthusiasm for Brexit spells bad news – particularly for those of us in Northern Ireland.
