'The PM's legacy will be one of a tanking pound, soaring inflation, and a seemingly inevitably recession.'
It would take longer to properly account for all the myriad ways Liz Truss leaves Britain worse off than when she entered office than the amount of time she spent inside Number 10.
Her brief tenure has been characterised by an exhilaratingly rapid pace of record-breaking, from establishing an unprecedented Labour lead in the polls to presiding over the highest rates of inflation in 40 years, to driving the pound down to its lowest-ever level against the dollar, and culminating in her resignation as the shortest-serving prime minister in UK history.
Twelve long-time supporters of the FEG would occupy cabinet positions in Truss's government, with Kwarteng, Therese Coffey and Nadhim Zahawi rewarded with some of the choice senior roles. The head of IEA's public policyabout dictating the political course. At last, it was time for them to realise the hyper-neoliberal Britain they'd dreamed about for so long, one which could boast of the bare minimum in taxation, regulation and public spending.
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