Liz Truss’ revisionism and a rocky start to post-case life for Bruce Lehrmann

Truss’d like a Turkey

Former UK prime minister Liz Truss knows a thing or two about getting things on an urgent deadline — after all she only needed 49 days in the top job to chuck the country’s finances into the nearest volcano. In September 2022, Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced and then abandoned £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts. Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey would later reveal the UK was hours away from total financial meltdown thanks to this burst of activity. So when she says, via the title of her new book, that we have Ten Years to Save the West, we can only assume she would back herself to destroy it much quicker.