What Liz Truss gets right (and wrong)

After three months of silence, Liz Truss has spoken out – first in a 4,000-word article for the Telegraph and now in a 50-minute-long interview with the Spectator. Truss, the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British political history, feels enough time has now elapsed to give her account of her 49-day premiership, the collapse of which was caused by a combination of the financial and political markets. As the co-author of a book on her long rise and rapid fall, I was intrigued to hear Truss speak for the first time publicly about where it all went wrong.

Both the interview and article make clear that Truss’s time in No. 10 has not fundamentally altered her or her political beliefs. Truss’s faith in free markets still burns bright; tax cuts remain the cure to our ails. The prose in her piece was dry, dispassionate but mercifully devoid of self-pity – with a few characteristically catty swipes at her enemies.