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Liz Truss ridiculed after revealing ludicrous cover of new book

Chris Jarvis
22 February, 2024



The UK’s shortest lived prime minister isn’t known for her humility. After serving just 49 days in Number 10, Liz Truss was forced to resign after causing economic chaos and tanking the Tories in the opinion polls.

With that kind of record behind her, you might expect Truss to take some time away from publicly opining about the state of the world. We aren’t so lucky.

Instead, Truss is set to have a new book published. She has now revealed the cover of the US edition on Twitter/X. That cover has been met with widespread ridicule.



The book’s title – Ten Years to Save the West: Leading the Revolution Against Globalism, Socialism, and the Liberal Establishment – has been at the centre of the roasting.

The TUC tweeted: “Ten years to save the West…but only 44 days to crash the economy?”

Former parliamentary staffer Tara Jane O’Reilly made a similar comment, tweeting: “‘ten years to save the west’ seems an awfully long vision for someone who could only do 49 days as PM”.

The journalist Rachel Charlton-Dailey mocked the idea of the ‘liberal establishment’, tweeting: “the liberal establishment being… the tory government that’s been in power for 14 years?? okay got it Liz”.

The title wasn’t the only subject of people’s ridicule. The cover also describes Liz Truss as the ‘former Prime Minister of Great Britain’.

Former Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler tweeted: “Perhaps someone should tell Liz Truss that she was actually the prime minister of the United Kingdom – that is, Great Britain and Northern Ireland. But, hey, maybe the Deep State designed her book cover.”

The journalist Caroline Mortimer also pointed out that the description of Truss’ former job was incomplete. She tweeted: “Do you only get to add the ‘and Northern Ireland’ bit when you’ve been in the job for more than 100 days?”

The journalist Jonn Elledge ultimately had the most brutal putdown. He tweeted: “not a great sign, from a sales perpective, that she needs a footnote explaining who she is”.

Chris Jarvis is head of strategy and development at Left Foot Forward

Image credit: Andrew Parsons / Number 10 – Creative Commons



Liz Truss ‘willing to work’ with Nigel Farage to change the Conservative Party and the country


Basit Mahmood
23 February, 2024 

In recent days and weeks Truss has also claimed that the system is rigged against Conservative policies



Former Prime Minister Liz Truss, whose premiership ended in disaster, has announced that she is willing to work with Nigel Farage in order to change the Conservative Party and the country.

Truss, who was booted out of office after just 49 days after her disastrous policies resulted in financial turmoil, has recently being trying to relaunch her political career with the launch of her Popular Conservatism group, also known as PopCon.

The group describes itself as a “new movement aiming to restore democratic accountability to Britain and deliver popular conservative policies.” Its supporters include right wing Tory MPs such as Jacob Rees-Mogg and Lee Anderson.

In recent days and weeks Truss has also claimed that the system is rigged against Conservative policies as she sought to blame a deep state conspiracy behind her downfall.

Truss has now also given her backing to Nigel Farage, saying she is willing to work with the former UKIP leader in a bid to turn around the Conservative Party and to change the country.

In a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) near Washington DC, she said: “Conservatives are now operating in what is now a hostile environment and we essentially need a bigger bazooka.”

She told Steve Bannon during an interview that she was willing to work with Farage to change the Conservative Party.

She said: “I will work with whoever it takes to make our country successful, I will work with whoever.

“And Nigel, I’ve done an interview with him today, I would like him to become a member of the Conservative Party and help turn our country around.”

Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Forward

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