Kwasi Kwarteng blamed himself and Liz Truss for the Tory election defeat.Source: Good Morning Britain, ITV
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00:00I think what happened with Liz and myself was a big part of this but it wasn't the only ingredient
00:06of this defeat and I think there were mistakes made in the last 18 months and just a point to
00:12that I mean reform got what was it 14 and a half percent 15 percent when I left office I just
00:16checked they were on a three percent so clearly things have happened in the last two years that
00:21weren't necessarily all related with what went wrong but absolutely I think we went too far too
00:28fast I think it was it was it was too much for the markets to swallow and we paid a heavy price
00:34and we'll find out later today where this trust is in terms of her seat because the rumors are that
00:40uh that'll be very close were you the fall guy for her well I was sacked and at the time I said
00:45to a spad that she would have three weeks and I said this is the most futile sacking in political
00:50history because it was obvious to me and actually one of our donors uh what's at me and said well
00:55she's just killed herself that was I mean it's a pretty you know uh expressive way of putting it
01:00but she literally had destroyed her premiership that's what I was told and in the end I think
01:05it was six days um after I was sacked that she resigned