Zöe Franklin: Liz Truss is a “tax hiking Johnson loyalist”

5 Sep 2022
Truss Call

Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Guildford constituency has called the new Prime Minister Liz Truss a Boris Johnson loyalist, and criticised the new PM for failing to act on the energy crisis, neglecting the NHS and voting for tax rises.

Zöe Franklin is just 3,337 behind the sitting Conservative MP Angela Richardson, making the next General Election a clear contest between the Lib Dems and Conservatives in the Guildford, Cranleigh and surrounding villages.

Responding to Liz Truss winning the Conservative Party Leadership Contest, Parliamentary Candidate for Guildford constituency, Zöe Franklin, said:

"Liz Truss and the Conservatives have spent months failing to act on soaring energy bills, leaving local residents in despair and small businesses going to the wall.

"They have shown they are completely out of touch with people in Guildford and Cranleigh. It is time they listened to Liberal Democrat calls to freeze energy bills to save families and pensioners from an economic catastrophe.

"Liz Truss is a Boris Johnson loyalist who voted to hike taxes on local people and spent months failing to act on soaring energy bills. She also oversaw cuts to funding to tackle sewage dumping during her time as Environment Secretary, cuts that have contributed to the River Wey and other local rivers becoming some of the worst polluted in the country. Her premiership represents more of the same failed Conservative party policies that have led to a cost of living crisis and our local NHS services stretched to breaking point.

"People across Guildford and Cranleigh tell me they are sick and tired of a Government which simply doesn't represent them and takes them for granted. At the next election, voters will face the choice between four more years of chaos and crisis under the Conservatives, or a hard-working local Liberal Democrat MP."

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