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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Bring out the PopCons, Liz Truss is the entertainment that keeps on giving

Former prime minister Liz Truss
Now for my next trick: former prime minister Liz Truss during the launch of the Popular Conservatism movement. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

Liz Truss is my guilty pleasure. A very expensive one at that. She added thousands to most people’s mortgages in the blink of an eye. But a pleasure nonetheless. Politicians like Liz don’t come round that often. Once in a generation. If that. So we ought to savour her when we can.

What Radon Liz – she’s a gas, but she’s inert – lacks in ability she more than compensates for in self-belief. Where she gets this confidence from, no one knows. It’s not even clear if she’s technically alive. Attach an EEG to either side of her head and you will only intermittently pick up a signal.

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