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Rees-Mogg told Truss to plug nuclear submarine into the grid

“It is genuinely amazing how much worse the mercifully brief Truss premiership was than we’d even imagined at the time.”

 by Jack Peat, 2024-08-27

 Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested plugging a nuclear submarine into the grid
in order to “show it’s safe”, extracts from a new book suggest. Sir
Anthony Seldon is set to release his latest political biography, ‘Truss
at 10: How Not to be a Prime Minister’ on 29th August, covering the
turbulent 49 days that Truss was in the top seat.

The book is expected to
contain some bombshell revelations about her time in charge, including
insight into how she proposed to deal with the fallout from her disastrous
mini-budget, which sent financial markets into a death spiral. It also
claims that Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg tried to persuade Truss to make him
chancellor instead of Kwasi Kwarteng, and that he urged her to abolish
inheritance tax, replace all tax rates with a 20p flat rate, and organise a
stunt to promote nuclear power.

Seldon writes that the then cabinet
minister told Truss: “We should get a nuclear submarine to dock at
Liverpool and plug it into the grid. That would show it is safe.” Sir
Anthony says cabinet secretary Simon Case dismissed the idea as a
“non-starter”, adding that “the subs are needed in operations”.

 London Economic 27th Aug 2024

August 29, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized