and it's written by a political biographer , anthony seldon. it's biographer, anthony seldon.ok, which is a pretty excoriating account of truss's days in downing street. now, what i want to make here is that anthony seldon has a very big reputation as a political biographer, and that is why what has been said here is being taken very seriously. after the budget, there were some enormous problems in the markets, etc. you all remember the accusation is it's about meetings that are going on in downing street. at that point, they were joined by fellow special adviser alex boyd , fellow special adviser alex boyd, who was told that truss and kwarteng were thinking they could still sort out the black hole with severe cuts . we've hole with severe cuts. we've been told they're looking at stopping cancer treatment on the nhs now. i found this quite extraordinary. what i heard it this morning, but when it comes from the pen of anthony seldon, a renowned biographer , i a renowned biographer, i thought, wow, can this really be true? and quasi is there is there just a scintilla of truth in

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liz truss, sir anthony seldon's current biography of truss, is being serialised in the times magazinefter speaking to more than 100 senior officials, aides and colleagues of both former pms. and he said today that while truss might have made mistakes in the delivery and communication of her economic plans, boris johnson's legacy was far more destructive . he was far more destructive. he writes in my opinion, boris johnson was undoubtedly a worse prime minister than liz truss. while she may only have survived fewer than 50 days in office and made many mistakes, she did at least have an intellectual drive and economic policy consistency about her, he added boris johnson had a total lack of integrity and was simply constitutionally unfit to be prime minister. he was a charlatan through and through. he squandered his three years in power and actually achieved extraordinarily little. i'm joined now by former tory mp and chair of the defence select committee , tobias ellwood, who committee, tobias ellwood, who will give his assessment of his former tory colleagues. good evening tobias. real

>> well, i mean, anthony seldon is somebody who does do his homework.i find, i mean, i find it so shocking that i mean, there would have been a rebellion. i mean, there would have been i mean, there would have been i mean, there would have been i mean, there would have been a rebellion in parliament, but i mean, there would have been a total uprising if you're not going to pay for cancen if you're not going to pay for cancer, i mean, i think to be fair on kwasi kwarteng, i think as he said, he was very careful with his words as he'd never heard it, but it doesn't mean that it wasn't. she wasn't thinking about it. i mean, if i was her him, i mean, he's quite bitter, you know? i mean, she threw him under a bus to try and survive. so i think it's fair enough that he goes, i mean, because the hidden thing is, look, she's so bonkers. she could have done anything right, but i didn't know about it. >> scarlet, let's stay with you, shall we? and look at the front page of the times. and this is about the overcrowding crisis in prisons. yeah and a mass release of

. >> this is in a bombshell new book by sir anthony seldon. her mini—budget, she launched a desperate attempt to find spending cuts in an effort to restore stock market confidence . confidence. >> let us know what you think about this story. >> let us know what you think about this story . the >> let us know what you think about this story. the ryanair chief executive, michael o'leary, has called for alcohol limits of two drinks per journey in airports to tackle a rise in disorder on his flights. he's told the daily telegraph that violent outbursts are occurring weekly with alcohol, especially when mixed with other substances. >> top doctors have called for a total ban on disposable e—cigarettes and all flavours, apart from tobacco. the british medical association is urging ministers to take bold and brave actions to protect the health of children and young people amid a vaping epidemic. so do you think it's going to be a good day today? >>i today? >> i think it's going to be a gorgeous day. the last someone said to me, how was your summer? i

well, the biographer for boris johnson and many prime ministers, actually, sir anthony seldon says trussspite the constant claims, of course, that she crashed the economy. sir anthony, who's writing a new book on truss called truss at ten, says johnson's legacy was far more pernicious , adding far more pernicious, adding while she may only have survived fewer than 50 days in office and made many mistakes , she did at made many mistakes, she did at least have an intellectual drive and an economic policy consistency about her. all right, well, my friends, let's gear you up. there we are, dame andrea and nichi hodgson. who's going to go first? >> andrea? okay, that's fine. absolutely. all right. i mean, firstly, darren, we should never have got rid of boris. and he won the stonking majority for the conservatives democratically voted in. and unfortunately it was the lib dem leaning mps in my own party who got rid of them. and so that was, the worst thing that happened to me. and we want to be in, in this situation today. now, boris connected to the people, but when he got ousted, i, i backed