Liz Truss has revealed she is considering scrapping the UK’s economic watchdog and changing the leaders of the Treasury and Bank of England, accusing the institutions of being “pro-China” and “pro-Remain”.
Nationwide Prime Minister with the shortest term Said she discussed scrapping the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) with the chancellor Quasi-exaggerated But it was concluded that this “amounted to a declaration of war on economic institutions”.
In excerpts from her memoir published in the Daily Mail, Ms Truss said the Office for Statistics, the Treasury and the Bank of England were “more interested in balancing the books than growing the economy” and viewed immigration as “repairing public finances” a way”.
Defending Her September 2022 mini budget – which sent borrowing costs soaring and sterling to a 37-year low against the dollar – the former prime minister said she would “accept that communication around the mini-budget was not as good as it should have been”.
However, she said the afternoon when Prime Minister Kwasi Quarten outlined his plans for growth was “probably my happiest moment as Prime Minister”, adding “I was over the moon”.
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Truss’ time as prime minister
Three weeks later, Mr. Quarten was fired as mortgage costs rose, and most of the measures in the statement were subsequently withdrawn to stabilize financial markets.
Kwasi Kwarteng was also sacked over the mini-budget. Image: PA
The series also includes behind-the-scenes details of family life as a senior government figure.
Ms Truss said she was forced to share her Chevening mansion in Kent with her predecessor when she was foreign secretary Dominic Raab and will find “Protein shakes labeled ‘Raab'” in the refrigerator.
Anecdotes, complaints and laments – but a lack of self-awareness
Given that Liz Truss was the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, and that she oversaw an economic collapse that saw her forced to sack her own chancellor and scrap most of her policy proposals, the excerpts from her memoirs are notably free of any Self-criticism or criticism. self conscious.
As political blogger Sam Freeman points out, parts of the book feel like “something I would do in a vacation school paper.”
There are some amusing and very readable anecdotes, including trying to transport an Ocado store to Downing Street, taking her children into a government nuclear bunker, and finding Dominic Raab in the fridge at the Foreign Secretary’s country residence. Protein shake.
There were some complaints too.
The former prime minister lamented having to do her own hair and make-up and said a lack of medical support meant her private secretary had to buy her cough medicine in the middle of the night.
She said living in Downing Street was “extremely claustrophobic” and that she was “virtually a prisoner”.
Whether that will spark sympathy among people whose mortgage rates soared during her chaotic 50 days in office is an open question.
Then there’s the now-familiar defense of her economic strategy, which again seems to include blaming everyone but herself.
In four pages of text, I found only two reflections.
She acknowledged that “communication around mini-budgets is not as high as it should be”. But then added: “But I have to ask: What have we been waiting for?”
She also said the late Queen told her to “pace yourself,” before adding “Maybe I should listen.”
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The Norfolk MP also criticized the level of personal support provided to the Prime Minister, saying “even though I am now one of the most photographed people in the UK, I have to arrange my own hair and make-up”.
She claimed the Prime Minister’s flat above Office 10 was infested with fleas, which some claimed came from her predecessor Boris Johnson’s dog Dilyn.
Ms Truss also revealed she and her husband had ordered new furniture for the home “but were evicted before it could be delivered”.
this death of queen It was also described in the excerpt, with Ms Truss saying the incident, which happened on her second day as Prime Minister, left her in a “state of shock” and thinking “Why me? Why now?”.
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