Liz Truss has a deranged plan to ‘save the West’ (who from – herself?)

Her new book – outlining her strategy to ‘save the west’ from the ‘global left’ – bears a remarkable similarity to a dying wasp’s idea of escaping through a shut window, writes Tom Peck. Just keep going at it, harder and harder, over and over again until it works, which it definitely will – and when it doesn’t, it’s the window’s fault anyway

Truss has already spent her time out of office, jetting around on a kind of self-exculpatory Why I Was Right And Everyone Was Wrong World Tour (AP)

Fans of Liz Truss, of which there may theoretically be one, will sadly have to wait seven months to get their hands on her promised new book, Ten Years to Save The West, which is not due out in April 2024, by which point there will already be only nine and a half left.

But for those who would sooner start panicking now and get straight on with saving the West by following the advice of the least credible human being alive in Britain today, then don’t panic (or rather do, as she has generously furnished us with an extremely clear idea of what to expect).

It is made obvious from the book’s press release that Liz Truss has learned precisely zero lessons from her 49 days in office, which have reduced her and her name to absolutely no more than a fully anthropomorphised punchline to a joke at her own expense.