It only took 49 days for Liz Truss to tank the British economy. Imagine what a decade could do? Ms Truss is shamelessly thinking about just that. She is now working on a book, Ten Years to Save the West, to be published in April next year. The west had better watch out. Ms Truss’s tome is unlikely to deliver the mea culpa the public deserves for crashing the pound and sending interest rates spiralling upwards a year ago. The shortest-serving prime minister in British history is likely to double down on her misjudgments.
Ms Truss blames her downfall on a Trump-esque conspiracy involving a leftwing economic establishment of British business, the International Monetary Fund and US president, Joe Biden. Good luck with that on the doorstep. She should not be able to recommend new peers or give gongs to those involved in her catastrophic time in No 10. Amazingly, Trussonomics is attempting a comeback via the pages of The Daily Telegraph and under the auspices of the Heritage Foundation, a powerful conservative thinktank based in Washington. It’s not hard to see why, given the ideological preferences of most Tory MPs. Ms Truss wanted lower taxes, especially those levied on the wealthy, and less regulation. At the same time, she was more than happy to bang the drum on culture war issues, claiming Brexit was failing because it had not been properly tried.
