After 44 days in office, inflicting damage to the economy and temporarily reducing Britain’s global standing to a punchline, Liz Truss acknowledged that she could not “deliver the mandate” on which she was elected by the Conservative Party. The question now is not only who replaces her, but what comes next?
The process by which the next Tory leader, and therefore prime minister, will be elected is not that different from the previous one, albeit with a higher threshold among MPs and a significantly condensed timetable. Will it produce a better result for the country?
