The Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine – in her “view from the sofa” of Liz Truss’s press conference last week – lamented that the prime minister didn’t show “a shred of empathy.” “Why couldn’t she just say something human, from the heart?” she asked, rhetorically.
This was quite something from the woman who accused the millions who took part in the People’s Vote marches as wanting to “lynch” leavers; who laughed at doctors urging drinkers to go easy after the lockdown ban on pubs was lifted, saying “what better sign that Britain is getting back to normal could there be than a load of Saturday-night drunks clogging up A&E?”; and, oh yes, described Meghan Markle as “the snake in Montecito Castle.”
Showing still more empathy with ordinary people, she also defended Boris Johnson for the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat, saying he “couldn’t be expected to live in a skip.”
