Liz Truss is writing a book where she’ll ‘share lessons’ from her 49 days as PM
Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister is writing a book so she can ‘share the lessons’ from her time in government.
Liz Truss is writing a book, called Ten Years to Save the West, recounting her 49 days as prime minister.
She’ll recount her meeting with Queen Elizabeth II just two days before her death, as well as her experiences with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping.
Ms Truss’s administration was a rollercoaster, after her and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘mini budget’ led to the pound crashing to its lowest-ever level against the US dollar.
She also, rather awkwardly, was outlasted in her role by a lettuce as pressure mounted for her to quit just weeks into her premiership.
Plus, during her first televised audience with King Charles III, he asked ‘so you’ve come back again? Dear, oh dear,’ leading to her explanation that it was actually the third time they’d met that day.
Ms Truss also announced that she was ‘a fighter, not a quitter’ just one day before she resigned as prime minister.
In her book, the former foreign secretary and Conservative MP will share a warning against authoritarianism and the threat from ‘fashionable ideas propagated by the global left’.
She says she’s concerned about persistent low growth, and that ‘our culture is being questioned, even basic things like human biology’.
She said: ‘I want to share the lessons from my experience in government and those international meetings where I was often the only conservative in the room and demonstrate that we have stark choices to make if we wish to avoid a managed decline of the Western architecture that has presided over generations of relative peace and prosperity.’
Ms Truss, who became MP for South West Norfolk in 2010, says she still finds it hard to understand what happened during her time in No 10.
She added: ‘I struggle to compute what happened. Particularly what happened to the Queen.
‘It was extraordinary and it also came off the back of being foreign secretary with the first war on European soil kicking off earlier that year, so 2022 was an extraordinary roller coaster, extraordinary.
‘The whole period from 2010, there have been a lot of “pinch me” moments.’
Her office said Ms Truss will be writing the book herself, rather than using a ghostwriter.
The book is due to be released next April and will be published by Biteback in the UK and Regnery Publishing in the US.
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