Friday 5 July 2024

The fall of Liz Truss

Not that long ago Liz Truss was the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Before that she was foreign secretary. Now she has no political status whatsoever. What an incredible fall from grace. Last night she was ousted as MP in one of the safest Conservative constituencies in the country and has to start looking for a job. They say politics is cruel and one is always at the mercy of the electorate which, of course, is what democracy is all about. But from the highest political post in the land to ...nothing. That's a helluva drop in favour. In her 49 days as prime minister she was her own worst enemy, trying to do too much in too short time a timeframe to boost the country's economy. Her maths was all over the place and she didn't consult anyone, she ignored the markets and the Bank of England and just went ahead with cutting taxes everywhere, like a mad professor in a science laboratory. And the markets and the economy and Britain's credit rating in the world went steeply downwards in a flash. So after 49 days she was gone. Now she is no longer an MP and, I guess, we will never see her back again. What will she do next, what can she do next?

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