As with people from Leeds, and the owners of gold circle necklaces, proselytisers of daily jogging may find it takes a while for the contaminating effect of a Truss association to entirely wear off.
For now, any claims about running’s usefully oxygenating effect on the brain, as persuasively advanced last week by Dame Kate Bingham, the vaccine saviour and jogging enthusiast, are likely to be offset by questions of what happened, in that case, to Liz Truss. Along with Leeds and her signature necklace, an ability to run, advertised early with her staged photograph on Brooklyn Bridge, constituted a key component in her personality. Could too much oxygen from excessive jogging have somehow flooded her brain, causing detachment from reality and, finally, total breakdown?
