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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Pulver

From Lady Gaga to Lady Penelope: who could play Liz Truss on screen?

Liz Truss at the Conservative party conference in Manchester on Monday.
Back in the spotlight? Liz Truss at the Conservative party conference in Manchester on Monday. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Liz Truss, currently wowing the Conservative party conference notwithstanding her disastrous record as the 45-day prime minister who tanked the economy, looks set to be immortalised on celluloid – or at least in a streaming-platform miniseries. Reports have emerged that screen rights have been sold for Out of the Blue, the 2022 account by the Sun political editor, Harry Cole, and the Spectator’s political correspondent, James Heale, of her “unexpected rise and rapid fall”. So who should be in the frame to play Truss?

1 Meryl Streep

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