This is John Batchel, a conversation with my good colleague, Joseph Sternberg, member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. He's in London, writes political economics. He is also a very helpful contributor to a new video I urge everyone to watch Liz Truss versus the blob. These are the 44 days of the premiership of Liz Truss,

who was undone by her own party. And Joseph here explains how it came to. There were large

issues. There were people who were hiding from their responsibility of the troubles with the guilt.

And there were other stories that were told or untold at the time

that turned out to be false, but it came down to,

did the leadership and the Conservative Party support Liz Truss?

And here Joe explains why that was not true and what that meant

for her very short tenure to be reviewed

much later, much more of this tonight. And I urge you to watch the video. It's on the

Wall Street Journal site right now, the editorial page. Here's Joe. Yes, I mean, part of her

political problem is that the Conservative Party members of Parliament

had never wanted her to be the leader.

When she became the prime minister, it was to replace Boris Johnson.

He had been ousted because of this whole kerfuffle about those lockdown parties in his

Downing Street offices. So, I mean, the party had not wanted to be

in the position of picking a new prime minister in the first place. They had no choice. And then they did

this procedure where the members of parliament in the Conservative Party had whittled it down to two

finalists. And she was the second place finisher in that race, but she was very popular

among the grassroots members who got the final vote on the leadership.

So she was already always going to be destined to have this dilemma where she would be very

popular among the parties faithful out in the countryside or the grassroots, but was not

as popular among the people who she actually needed to get to vote for her laws in parliament.

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