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“... two months, the process of selecting Britain’s new prime minister has revealed little about what Liz Truss intends to do. Her short victory speech contained pro forma praise for her predecessor and ritual execration of the defeated socialist threat. Her Downing Street speech turned on the Cameron-era cliché about an ‘aspiration nation’. She ...”

“... often dark version of the genre, the feared and respected school of Nordic Larp.Until Liz Truss, no one had ever thought to try Larping as a system of government. But it turns out that we in the UK are living inside a full-scale Thatcher Larp, whether we voted for it or not. (For the avoidance of doubt: we didn’t. Check the 2019 ...”

“... freezing various budgets in cash terms, while inflation continues to rise. It’s no secret that Truss and Kwarteng subscribe to the radical conservative notion that public spending rewards laziness and moral delinquency; it was beliefs like these that led 81,326 Conservative Party members to appoint Truss as prime ...”

“... of publicly funded advocacy, but Theresa May sacked him before he could put them into practice. Liz Truss showed barely any interest in the job. David Lidington came and went without a trace in just seven months. David Gauke, a relative fixture with a term of eighteen months, had to renationalise the probation service, at a cost of about half a billion ...”

“... This triggered an election campaign which, on 5 September 2022, resulted in the election of Liz Truss. She was appointed by the queen as prime minister the following day.The conspicuous failure of the Truss ministry has distracted attention from the failure of the process that led to it. In the first place the ...”

“... burnish their credentials as Johnson’s ideological successors. Now, the likes of Priti Patel and Liz Truss profess to have stayed simply to maintain the government of the country. Those candidates who have been closely associated with the old regime must wonder whether it will prove possible to stand for ‘Johnsonism without ...”

“... became difficult to ignore and Boris Johnson tedious to chronicle. By the time I’d got round to Liz Truss she’d gone. Though this annual bulletin has never tried to be other than serendipitous, this year’s instalment seems particularly patchy while being a fair representation of my routine. The largest segment is occasioned by the death of HM the ...”

“... place: claimants would never have to pay more than £10,000 as part of an environmental challenge. Liz Truss, when she was lord chancellor, sought to change the new rule: litigants would be required to give detailed information about their finances; in certain cases, the cap could be lifted. This would, it was argued, deter ‘unmeritorious ...”

“... the bottle.What was left? After the dutiful May and the vacuous Johnson came the madness of Liz Truss. Apparently, the problem had been sheer timidity. Far bolder and swifter action was needed. Why not spend more – in the form of a massive subsidy for fuel bills – at the same time as cutting taxes and then call it a strategy for growth? To ...”

“... law in continuing to grant arms licences to Saudi Arabia and ordered their immediate cessation. (Liz Truss, then international trade secretary, was forced to apologise to the Commons after the government continued to grant licences anyway.) The court’s judgment revealed some of the innovative ways in which humanitarian law obligations are managed ...”

“... the many things Dorries’s ‘theory’ can’t account for is the reason the plotters moved in Liz Truss to succeed Johnson, rather than their main man, Sunak. Rory Stewart, a cabinet minister under May and now Britain’s most successful failed politician, sees Truss’s elevation, like Johnson’s, as proof of ...”

“... departments with barely a whisper of opposition. She appointed an inexperienced acolyte – Liz Truss – to the job of justice secretary, whose responsibilities include defending the integrity of the judiciary against the executive. Putting an apparatchik in charge of the legal system could be a mark of political weakness – May needs all the ...”

“... investment in new firms and technologies because they’re too resentful towards the taxman. Liz Truss, so desperate to draw comparisons with Thatcher that she appeared to have dressed up as her idol for the Channel 4 leadership debate, has described government targets for housebuilding as ‘Stalinist’. Rishi Sunak, meanwhile, has internalised ...”

“... most frequently around trans rights and refugees, but lacks a discernible political philosophy. Liz Truss failed to outlast a lettuce in Downing Street but is now touring the world touting her zombie Thatcherism, supported by a hard core of backbench MPs and a gaggle of heterodox Conservative donors. (Jeremy Hosking, who funds the Critic, gave her ...”

“... Relations at the Library of Congress), and foreign policy adviser to both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss; this month he was commissioned to lead yet another defence policy review. In 2016, Bew published a biography of Clement Attlee, whom he described as looking to the US on foreign affairs and as being a gatekeeper against elements in the British ...”