What is Liz Truss’s legacy? It’s a question that will no doubt entertain future historians. But one thing they will never be able to take away from her is a place in the annals of Lib Dem history. As a former card-carrying member, Truss earned an entry in the party’s infamous ‘Glee Club’ songbook – a collection of tunes sung on the last night of the Lib Dem annual conference. Her 1994 call to abolish the monarchy was subsequently immortalised in a song called ‘The week we went to Brighton’. Sung to the tune of ‘Day Trip to Bangor’ by Fiddler’s Dream it concludes:
Didn’t we have a lovely time, Upsetting Paddy Ashdown, Making him hot at the thought of pot, Available at sweetie counters, ‘No, not at all’ he was able to call, ‘We’ll have a Royal Commission’, So wasn’t he lucky, We didn’t go on, To abolish the Queen!’
And now Mr S can reveal that in 2023, the Lib Dems have again paid tribute to Truss.
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