British Prime Minister Liz Truss is trying to rescue her premiership after the tax cut debacle caused a fiscal crisis and gave Labour a gargantuan polling lead over her Conservatives. But after that calamitous start, analysts doubt the Tory Party will keep Truss in power for long, even if it means having two new prime ministers in the space of a few months.
The fast-motion car crash of Liz Truss’s premiership is shocking but hardly surprising. As soon as she emerged as a potential PM, analysts were preparing to say “I told you so”. Truss is a “planet-sized mass of overconfidence and ambition teetering upon a pinhead of a political brain”, Matthew Parris, a columnist for The Times and former aide to Margaret Thatcher, wrote during the Tory leadership contest this summer. “It must all come crashing down.”
