Liz Truss is back – kind of. The former PM of just 49 days has published a book, Ten Years to Save the West. The Guardian’s political correspondent Eleni Courea and breaking news correspondent Martin Pengelly discuss her seeming lack of regretDespite just 49 days in office during which the British pound reached an all-time low against the dollar in reaction to Liz Truss’s mini-budget, Truss remains defiant and has published her views on how to “save the west” in a book.Today in Focus host Helen...
Former PM Liz Truss says she hopes Donald Trump wins the next US election.
Ten Years to Save the West is published by Biteback in the UK, which is owned by major Tory donor Lord Ashcroft.
The ex-PM's publishers apologise and agree to remove a fake quote tied to an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
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Jeremy Hunt refused to say "anything negative" about Liz Truss as she "appointed him as chancellor." When asked by Sky News if he thought the former prime minister, who has been critical of government policy, is currently being helpful for the Conservative Party, the cabinet minister would not cast aspersions on his colleague. "I think Liz will be the first to accept that during her time as prime minister, mistakes were made," Mr Hunt said of Ms Truss's 49 days in office, in which the pound hit...
Truss has said that she would like to see the United Nations abolished in her latest attention-seeking outburst.
The BBC's political editor Chris Mason on what the former prime minister has to say about the state of conservatism.
The former prime minister spent just 49 days in office but wants to stay on the world stage. Her attacks on Biden and praise for Trump are aimed at the populist rightIn her new book, the former British prime minister Liz Truss directs scathing attacks and mockery at Joe Biden, president of her country’s closest ally. Biden was guilty of “utter hypocrisy and ignorance”, Truss writes, when the US leader said he “disagree[d] with the policy” of “cutting taxes on the super wealthy” in the...
"Hard to identify, maybe minor royals," one said, while the other suggested they could well be "local dignitaries".
Ms Truss signalled she was supportive of Donald Trump returning to the White House, suggesting it ‘has to be’ him.