Liz Truss on Trump, Brexit and … fleas? 9 things we learned reading ...

The former prime minister uses her book to rail against British institutions including the Treasury, the Bank of England and Office for Budget Responsibility for a “sustained whispering campaign” against her policies. She accuses them of all “having the same mindset” on big issues like the EU, China and immigration.

In media interviews to promote the book, Truss went a step further, saying Bank of England chief Andrew Bailey should quit and urging a “proper investigation” into how her policy plans were scuppered. 

While accepting comms around the ill-fated budget “were not as good as they could have been,” Truss says the establishment had her “at gunpoint” by declaring a “market meltdown” unless she junked her entire policy agenda. And she colorfully compares her plight to a “game of Tetris when you start losing control and the pieces are getting closer and closer to the top.” 

The media also comes in for a good pasting — they were, she laments, too “hungry for political drama.” Sorry about that!

She’s a big fan of Donald Trump, though

Truss has already used the book promo circuit to firm up her support for Donald Trump. Speaking to LBC, Truss said “it has to be” Trump in the White House, and told the Spectator “the world was safer” when the Republican was in power.

Truss has also laid into incumbent Joe Biden, criticizing the U.S.’s president’s opposition to the tax-cutting mini-budget and saying she was “astounded that Biden would breach protocol by commenting on U.K. domestic policy.”