One year on, Truss’s case for growth is stronger than ever

There won’t be any fireworks. No one is blowing up the balloons, and there isn’t going to be a cake. The first anniversary of Liz Truss’s unfortunate and quickly terminated premiership today won’t be marked by anything other than a few snarky comments on the site formerly known as Twitter. And yet, as the tumultuous 44 days of her leadership start to fade into history, one thing is surely clear. Her argument that the UK badly needs to do something about lifting its miserable growth rate is becoming stronger all the time.

When Truss complained about the ‘anti-growth’ coalition, when she argued that we had to rip up rules and regulations, streamline the government machine and embrace the freedoms our departure from the European Union offered, instead of quietly preparing to rejoin, she was widely mocked.