Robert Jenrick and Liz Truss

Robert Jenrick mocked former prime minister Liz Truss with a brutal jibe at the Tory Party conference.

In his keynote speech at the Tory conference in Manchester, Jenrick joked about her ongoing unpopularity with voters.

Truss lasted just 49 days in Downing Street after her mini-Budget crashed the economy and sent mortgage rates soaring.

Jenrick drew a comparison between his party’s former leader and two Tories who were quickly booted out of the Big Brother house.

He said: ”[Former Conservative MP] Sir Michael Fabricant went on the Big Brother house. He lasted four days.

“Last week, one of our party’s most energetic campaigners,........

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