Slow clap for former prime minister Liz Truss, who is in Washington tomorrow to deliver a speech on “Taking back our parties” at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The conference is often a raucous affair, but this week’s jamboree in the US capital will be a full-on Make America Great Again (MAGA) fiesta. Perhaps it has escaped Truss’s notice that the Trumpists have no need to take back their party. It is already theirs.
The foreign visitor with the most political stardust will be the chainsaw-wielding Argentinian president Javier Milei, who will be sharing the limelight with Donald Trump on Saturday. While they will be addressing plans to sink the deep state, Truss has already been sunk by it. Her talk will be followed by an afternoon session called, “Putting one’s head in a gas stove” (a reference to how the Democrats are going to force Americans to buy electric cookers).
