Liz Truss: Who was to blame (according to Liz Truss)

Liz Truss: Who was to blame (according to Liz Truss)

Liz Truss’s book about her 49 days as PM is now out.

If, as it appears, it’s an attempt by Truss to relaunch here career as a stand-up comedian, she needs to work on her delivery because it really is the way you tell them.

The book does allow us to update the list of people and institutions that Truss says are to blame for everything going wrong:

President Biden

The Bank of England

The IMF

Tony Blair

Gordon Brown

Tory MPs

New Labour generally

Simon Case (Cabinet Secretary with beard)

Greta Thunberg

Just Stop Oil

The bond markets

The Office for Budget Responsibility

The BBC

Mark Carney

International economic bodies

Institutional bureaucracy (civil servants)

The Occupy Movement

Academic Institutions and Think-Tanks

Woke Diversity Policies

Polly Toynbee

The United Nations

Boris Johnson’s dog