Giant billboard featuring Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Liz Truss' pocket axed after tip-off

A giant billboard poster featuring Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the pocket of Liz Truss has been axed after word got out on the eve of the Conservative Party Conference.

The ad, showing a Sunak in the pocket of his predecessor Truss, were set to overlook the conference venue from a nearby skyscraper this week. But it’s been blocked after a small-print clause in the conference centre’s guidelines was invoked, the Mirror reports.

Pat McFadden MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State in the Cabinet Office and National Campaign Coordinator, said: “The Tories are desperate for people to forget their record of failure. The reality is the British people are still paying the price for the Conservatives crashing the economy, with higher taxes, higher mortgages and higher food and energy bills.

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"It’s clear who is really directing government policy. One word from Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak bows down to her agenda of U-turns and unfunded tax cuts.”

A second ad placed by Sacha Lord, Manchester’s night time ambassador was also scrapped. Parklife founder Mr Lord’s advert showed Sunak with glowing red eyes, criticising him for failing to help self-employed people in the hospitality industry during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Manchester Central, the conference venue, said they invoked a non-compete clause in their agreement with the nearby Axis tower, where the giant digital billboard sits after being made aware that the ads had been placed. They insisted the decision wasn’t political, but could not say who had tipped them off that the ads were planned. Labour’s