She’s back. Liz Truss is in the headlines once more this week ahead of tomorrow’s publication of her book Ten Years to Save the West. Part memoir, part cri de coeur, it tells the tale of her ten years in government and the lessons she learned about being, in her words, ‘the only conservative in the room.’ In her first TV interview, Truss spoke about some of the book’s themes which, in turn, offer us some clues about her plans for life after office.
Some in Truss’s circle hope she can become the British equivalent of America’s Barry Goldwater
The question being asked in Westminster is what she wants to achieve with the book: a big pay cheque or relevance on the right? It’s clear from the publicity surrounding the book, as well as it contents, that Truss has her sights set on America. This book is being published concurrently in the States by Regnery and, as Fraser points out in his interview, Donald Trump is mentioned 40 times: the same number of references that the much-maligned OBR receives.
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