Tory party needs ex-PM’s drivel like hole in the head

Liz Truss's 4,000-word article explaining how she became Britain's shortest-serving prime minister is a communications disaster, both for her and for the Conservative Party.

- CRAIG OLIVER

Anyone worth their salt would have told her she needed to win permission to be heard before trying to take the moral high ground. That would have meant a long period of reflection, allowing time for wounds to heal, and saying sorry for taking the country to the brink of disaster. She has done none of this, and is instead expecting us to believe it is we who have got it all so badly wrong.

To be fair, there is a fig leaf of contrition. She admits poor communication but only by way of painting herself as more sinned against than sinning. Hundreds of words are devoted to a foot-stamping conspiracy theory about the international money markets, the economic establishment and the Treasury ganging up against her. The idea that all of these are bastions of leftwing orthodoxy” just waiting to bring her down is laughable. I half expected her to tell me that they had also been responsible for assassinating JFK.