OPINION - Welcome to the Republican Hunger Games: a circus for the madmen and creeps desperate to be Trump's vice-president

Slow clap for former prime minister Liz Truss, who is in Washington tomorrow to deliver a speech on “Taking back our parties” at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The conference is often a raucous affair, but this week’s jamboree in the US capital will be a full-on Make America Great Again (MAGA) fiesta. Perhaps it has escaped Truss’s notice that the Trumpists have no need to take back their party. It is already theirs.