Politico London Playbook
14 September 2022
WHAT ABOUT THE NEW PM? It wasn’t quite the first week Truss and her team had planned, but a focus group in Oldham on Monday night, run by More in Common for POLITICO, reckoned the new PM has come out of it well. Robert, a construction industry worker, said Truss had been well advised to stay in the background, and thought she had conducted herself well. The group generally wanted to give Truss a chance, even though she hadn’t previously particularly been on their radar.