Gary Neville wades into politics AGAIN as he mocks Liz Truss by comparing her 44-day spell as Prime Minister to his failed spell as head coach of Valencia
- Ms Truss will look to begin her reputational rehabilitation in speech later today
- But Neville has compared speech to him giving tactical advice to Pep Guardiola
Gary Neville has waded into politics again by mocking Liz Truss’ political comeback – comparing her 44-day spell as Prime Minister to his failed stint as head coach of Valencia.
Ms Truss will urge the West to ‘get real’ about the threat of China and will take a veiled swipe at Emmanuel Macron’s trip to China during a speech to a think tank in Washington today.
But Neville, 48, has taken to Twitter to compare the speech to him giving tactical advice to Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.
Satirically quote-tweeting a post announcing Truss’ plans to relaunch her career, he said: ‘Gary Neville tells Pep Guardiola to get real about his tactics in coaching comeback speech’.
The pundit was in charge at Valencia for four months between 2015 and 2016, having been appointed despite limited coaching experience and no fluency in Spanish. He oversaw 28 games, during which time he recorded 10 wins, seven draws and 11 defeats before being sacked.
Gary Neville sent up his own career, comparing Liz Truss planned speech to giving coaching advice to decorated City manager Pep Guardiola
Reacting to the tweet, Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson said Neville was ‘like the pub bore who spends all day thinking of something daft to say, he is getting very good at it’.
A vocal Labour supporter, Wednesday’s tweet didn’t mark the first time that Neville has mocked himself to offer a critique of the Tory government.
Speaking at the Labour conference in September – during Truss’ checkered time in office – Neville said that the recently-announced mini-budget had ‘tanked the pound lower than my reputation in Liverpool’.
At the same event, which saw the party member appear onstage with its leader Sir Keir Starmer, Neville called the then-Truss-led administration a ‘tired, failing Government’.
Truss’ speech on Wednesday is due to call into question whether Western democracies, such as the UK, are ‘match fit to take on China’.
The MP for South West Norfolk has been predominantly out of the spotlight since her turbulent time at No 10 came to its dramatic conclusion, with her Margaret Thatcher Freedom Lecture at the Heritage Foundation looking to begin her reputational rehabilitation.
The former Prime Minister has been a backbencher since her resignation in October 2022
Last September, Labour party member Neville appeared on stage with Sir Keir Starmer
The former prime minister will take a thinly-veiled dig at the French President by hitting out at Western leaders who show ‘weakness’ to Beijing.
Mr Macron made a three-day state visit to China last week during which he received a red carpet welcome from the country’s leader Xi Jinping.
He was accompanied on his trip by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
But the French President arrived back in France to a storm of criticism from other European capitals.
It came after he suggested on the trip that a potential conflict between the US and China over Taiwan was not an issue for Europe.
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