Liz Truss resurrects her pro-growth agenda

What will Liz Truss’s legacy be? The obvious answer is her 49-day stint in Downing Street. But she is determined not to settle for that. Today in Westminster, she oversaw the formal launch of her new project, The Growth Commission, dedicated to spreading the message she tried to convey as prime minister: the importance of growing the size of the economy.

Today’s launch was attended by Truss, who is stressed to have convened the commission but holds no formal role within it. The Telegraph’s Liam Halligan chaired a panel of four members of the commission: co-chairmen Douglas McWilliams and Shanker Singham, economist Tyler Cowen and senior trade economist in the White House Council of Economic Advisers Christine McDaniel. All four panelists commented on the publication of the commission’s first report, entitled ‘The Growth Challenge’, which sets out what the commission has been set up to do – mainly to ‘investigate the causes of the slowing down in GDP per capita growth worldwide’.