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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Truss the Saviour exposes ‘Labour’s secret plan’

Truss, in red dress, sits at a desk facing the camera, with shelves displaying books and photos behind her
Truss is mostly confined to a small attic space that doubles as the studio for ‘The Liz Truss Show’ on her YouTube channel. Photograph: YouTube

It’s one of the great philosophical questions of our age. Or any age, for that matter. If Liz Truss didn’t exist, would it be possible to imagine her? Could anyone conceive that someone so brain-meltingly dim could have once been our prime minister?

And even if they could, would they have dared to believe that in harness with this industrial-strength stupidity there could be such a total lack of self-awareness. Liz comes with a vacuum-packed confidence in her own talent.

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