Liz Truss is back. Again. And this time she has a book. It’s called Ten Years to Save the West, serialised in the Mail, and so far it’s an absolute goldmine, filled with the kind of cracked insights, revelations and wounded self-justifications that we’ve come to expect from the UK’s shortest serving PM. These are the top ten humdingers.
Forget, if you can, about the disastrous mini-budget. The juiciest issue here appears to be the nature of Truss’s relationship with former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng. She writes that treasury officials “were clearly alarmed by my close working relationship with Kwasi”. When pushed further during a recent interview with the Mail, Truss denied any romantic component to the partnership. “He is a close friend of mine,”