KEVIN MAHER

10 things I’ve learnt about Liz Truss

Tory plotters, experts out to get her — and nearly puking on Sue Gray. The former PM’s new book proves she is as delusional as ever, says Kevin Maher

Kevin Maher on Liz Truss’s new book: “So far it’s an absolute goldmine”
Kevin Maher on Liz Truss’s new book: “So far it’s an absolute goldmine”
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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,”