Liz Truss's audacious comeback has exposed the sorry state of the post-Brexit Tory party ✒️ ianbirrell for ipaperviews
in sticking to her proclaimed beliefs was admirable – but the experiment failed. Rational folk might have assumed she would slink away to reflect on her failings after such tumult, worrying about the naivety of her approach, the policies she pursued and puzzling over how to make her best ideas more palatable.
So little more than 100 days after departing Downing Street, an unrepentant Truss is back to reclaim her mantle as leader of the libertarian right. She claims to have spent many hours reflecting on her short stint as prime minister, yet like some kind of modern-day Narcissus seems still dazzled by the supposed beauty of her ideas.
Yet her return to the political stage, like Johnson’s relentless campaign to grab back power despite his sordid behaviour in office, sends out a wider message to voters. It spotlights the selfish egos running amok at the peak of our political system, the shallow conceits of Westminster, the sad delusions of some people in positions of power even as their rhetoric smashes into reality.
Rishi Sunak is striving to restore a sense of stability to staunch the haemorrhaging of support, but already we can see both his predecessors and potential successors fighting over the shrivelled Tory party that seems likely at this point to emerge after the next election.
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