If we had crippled the economy and lost it billions by sheer incompetence and bad decision-making, most of us could expect to be unemployable or even in jail. Not so Liz Truss, who is still picking up the perks of office and an MP’s salary, as well as planning her comeback. In an excruciatingly self-pitying and self-absolving article in the Sunday Telegraph, the former prime minister brazenly defended herself against an imagined “leftwing economic establishment”, as well as exploiting the divisions within her own party (Liz Truss says she didn’t get ‘realistic chance’ to enact tax-cutting agenda, 4 February).
Having laid out her stall of tax cuts and growth, she will simply join the swelling ranks of current and former ministers, MPs and members of the upper house who are turning public service into self-service on an industrial scale. This is not prohibited either by custom or law. And there are no sanctions against a minister of the crown who loses her state a fortune
Graham Lane
London
