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David Smith in Washington

The lady’s not for learning: Liz Truss tells US group she was right all along

Liz Truss: ‘We need to fight this battle of ideas once again. Mrs Thatcher would have expected nothing less.’
Liz Truss: ‘We need to fight this battle of ideas once again. Mrs Thatcher would have expected nothing less.’ Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

She’s back. Sort of. Liz Truss, a former British prime minister whose tenure lasted only 50 days, sought to revive her political career and economic agenda on Wednesday with a major speech – more than 3,500 miles from home.

Truss’s unlikely comeback attempt was perhaps guaranteed a warmer welcome at the Heritage Foundation (a somewhat stuffy conservative thinktank in Washington that has its own Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom) than at many places in her native Britain.

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