Philip Collins
(Picture: Daniel Hambury)When a party falls to pieces, look out for the phase in which it starts to blame the world for its own flaws. In a 4,000-word essay in The Daily Telegraph that would have been funnier but no less absurd if it had been written by Lewis Carroll, the 49-day former PM Liz Truss seriously tried to suggest to us that her time in office was cut short because of a Left-wing conspiracy conducted by those notorious pinkos, Treasury officials and bond market traders. Playing the victim is now occupying the psychological space that used to be taken up by blaming the European Union for Britain’s problems. If this takes hold, the party is truly sunk.
Let us return briefly to reality and recap what happened because Truss herself seems either confused or in the grip of a delusion. Truss had the top official at the Treasury sacked and refused to allow the Office for Budget Responsibility to publish forecasts. She was proved to be catastrophically wrong but now blames a conspiracy of Left-wing civil servants.
