Some great insights in this column. I wonder if the big problem here is that really Truss is a typical backbencher. Slightly over committed to dogmatic beliefs, not especially telegenic or good with a script, or at responding to unanticipated events, an indefinable 'weirdness' that many comment on and yet seems characteristic of a number…
Some great insights in this column. I wonder if the big problem here is that really Truss is a typical backbencher. Slightly over committed to dogmatic beliefs, not especially telegenic or good with a script, or at responding to unanticipated events, an indefinable 'weirdness' that many comment on and yet seems characteristic of a number of Tory backbenchers when seen up close. You can imagine her agitating for her libertarian beliefs in that capacity for decades. What's gone wrong here is the lack of calibre in modern Westminster, meaning she's been catapulted way over her pay grade, first to cabinet rank and then to the highest position in the land.
Some great insights in this column. I wonder if the big problem here is that really Truss is a typical backbencher. Slightly over committed to dogmatic beliefs, not especially telegenic or good with a script, or at responding to unanticipated events, an indefinable 'weirdness' that many comment on and yet seems characteristic of a number of Tory backbenchers when seen up close. You can imagine her agitating for her libertarian beliefs in that capacity for decades. What's gone wrong here is the lack of calibre in modern Westminster, meaning she's been catapulted way over her pay grade, first to cabinet rank and then to the highest position in the land.