What Liz Truss did next

It was a year ago on Wednesday that Liz Truss left office. As the ministerial cavalcade rolled out of Downing Street for the short drive to Buckingham Palace, so she entered the history books as the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history. Truss was still reeling from the events of the past seven weeks. The rejection of her mini-Budget by the world markets had been dubbed Britain’s ‘economic Suez.’ But in keeping with her character and past record, she did not follow the example of Anthony Eden and ignominiously slink off into retirement. After a short holiday – her first non-ministerial break in more than a decade – she returned and began to plot her next moves.

Truss’s most important decision in the year since has been to stand again as a Conservative candidate at the next election. Every premier since Margaret Thatcher with the exception of Theresa May has opted to quit parliament at the first opportunity since leaving office.