Why Not Bring Back Liz Truss?

The Republicans stuck by Ronald Reagan the way the Tories failed to stick by the premier they’d brought in to rebuild the wreck left by Boris Johnson — and look what happened to the Gipper when he stood for a second term.

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Prime Minister Truss at 10 Downing Street on June 7, 2022, when she was foreign secretary. AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file

Call it the Liz Truss memorial moment. It is the moment in which it is being reported that in the just-ended third quarter Britain’s economic growth fell to zero. Zilch. Or, as the New York Times puts it, the economy “flatlined.” It is entering, the Times foresees, “a protracted period of stagnation on the cusp of recession.” Or, given what the Tories did upon ousting Liz Truss as prime minister, one could call it the “inevitable” period of stagnation.

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