Londoner’s Diary
It wouldn’t be a true Liz Truss book without some behind-the-scenes chaos. And in true Truss style, Ten Years to Save the West, which has been flying off the shelves despite appalling reviews, has already experienced its first U-turn only a few days after publication. It started out with a quote. One diligent reader noticed that Truss, in the middle of one of her chapter-long rodomontades about the deep state’s plans to thwart her government, had quoted a supposed line from the late Jewish financier Mayer Amschel Rothschild: “Permit me to issue and control the money of the nation, and I care not who makes it laws!”
