Liz Truss has spent her time since being ousted as prime minister reinventing herself as an anti-establishment right-wing disruptor.
Rather than lick her wounds and accept a degree of responsibility for the market meltdown triggered by her ill-advised mini-Budget – as her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng had done – she has instead doubled down and blamed the “economic establishment” – in this case the Bank of England, the Treasury and the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
This has seen her pop up in America speaking at conferences along with the likes of Donald Trump, JD Vance and the wider Maga movement.
It is also why the UK’s shortest serving leader – she managed just 49 days – was in London this week helping to launch an American-style right-wing conference.
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