Boris Johnson’s tenure had been short, but it had been consequential. At first glance, a similar verdict on Liz Truss’s 50 days in office seems improbable.
There is no record of positive achievement. Her accomplishment was to have smashed up so much so quickly. But there are other reasons to consider her tenure to be of the greatest consequence.
Truss may well have killed off an ideological project that has animated sections of the right, in Britain and elsewhere, for the best part