"Liz Truss’s riotous romp of a memoir proves she never stood a chance"

Telegraph: 16th April 2024: Tim Stanley's review of the book "Ten Years to Save the West" 

"...Most PMs’ memoirs are a multi-volume snoozefest. Liz Truss has published the first in history that could be accurately described as a “romp”...

Truss details with speed and good humour the cock-ups and back-stabbing that destroyed her mini-budget and pushed her from office... 

If you think Truss was simply a libertarian nutter then the only lesson is that she should never have been elected Tory leader. If, like me, you think she was fundamentally right – that Britain is getting poorer because we’ve forgotten how to generate wealth – then how and why she failed demands some serious thought. There were bigger forces at play than mere eccentricity...

The Truss Thesis is that Left-wing ideas birthed in the 1960s have become the values of the establishment – from civil servants to businessmen, charities to teachers – with the result that whoever is in government, the same ideology remains in power... 

...whether Trussonomics was sound or not isn’t the interesting point. It’s that she stood no chance of implementing even a relatively mild fiscal reform because of the “sheer power of the administrative state and its influence on the markets and the wider polity”...The men in grey suits who once ensured that socialism was unimaginable in Britain now exist to do the same for conservatism..." 

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