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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hugh Muir

‘Stop saying I crashed the economy,’ says Liz Truss. Is it possible to gaslight an entire country?

Liz Truss at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, 30 September 2024
Liz Truss at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, 30 September 2024. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

The problem with worrying about megalomaniacs on the web and wildfires in Los Angeles is that we have been distracted from the very real plight of Liz Truss.

She is the victim of a very special kind of injustice: people think she was a terrible prime minister, whose doings were disastrous for the economy, resulting in her defenestration by her own party – and what’s worse, people keep saying so.

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