What Liz Truss did next
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
After she resigned in 2022, everyone thought Liz Truss would disappear. Not a bit of it. She’s earned more than £300,000 from speeches, has a new book out and is a favourite of America’s alt-right. Rachel Sylvester asks Westminster insiders: is the former PM deluded or planning a comeback?
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| 0:41.6 | From the hunt for the bones of Thomas Beckett in Canterbury Cathedral |
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| 0:58.8 | Crypt is out now in hardback and Audiobook. Are you suffering from Liz Truss's whiplash? She arrived, quickly vanished, but has |
| 1:16.8 | popped up again in quite an interesting place. |
| 1:20.5 | Thank you so much and it's fantastic to be here at CPAC with so many true |
| 1:27.4 | Conservatives. Like Nigel Farage before her, she's found a keen audience amongst the Maga Right, deep in Trumland. |
| 1:36.0 | I gotta tell you, I really feel for the United Kingdom. |
| 1:41.0 | I mean, you guys... |
| 1:42.0 | We are going to save it, Steve. I'm not a pessimist like you I'm an optimist I know it can be saved. She also has a book out of course and out of the ashes of her short |
| 1:57.4 | Premiership a new political group to champion her view of the world. |
| 2:01.5 | This difficult, bigger conservative at the moment. |
| 2:05.0 | It's difficult advocating these causes |
| 2:08.0 | and it's why we need a popular conservative movement |
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