- Liz Truss recounts her 44-day tenure and personal anecdotes
- Contemplated dismantling economic institutions; ultimately refrained, citing repercussions
- Defends mini-budget despite criticism, shares personal experiences as official
Liz Truss tendered her resignation in October 2022 after completing a term of 44 days in office. Anecdotes from her personal life as a senior government official are included in her memoir, which chronicles her brief tenure.
Liz Truss disclosed that she wrestled with the idea of dismantling the United Kingdom’s economic watchdog and replacing Treasury and Bank of England leaders, claiming they were “pro-China” and “pro-Remain” organisations, respectively.
It would have “amounted to a declaration of war against the economic establishment” to eliminate the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), according to the nation’s prime minister with the shortest tenure. Although she and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng discussed the possibility, she ultimately decided against it.
Ms Truss asserts in a Daily Mail-published excerpt from her memoir that the OBR, Treasury, and Bank of England “regarded immigration merely as a means to repair the public finances” and “were more concerned with balancing the books than expanding the economy.”
The former prime minister defended her September 2022 mini-budget, which precipitated a surge in borrowing costs and a 37-year low for the pound against the dollar, by stating that she would “acknowledge that the communications surrounding the mini-budget were not optimal.”
She added, “I was ecstatic” when she stated that the afternoon following Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s presentation of the development plan was “likely my happiest as prime minister.”
Three weeks later, in response to rising mortgage costs, Mr Kwarteng was terminated, before the majority of the measures in the statement were abandoned to stabilise financial markets.
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Additionally, the serialisation provides intimate glimpses into the domestic life of a senior government official.
Ms Truss claims that during her tenure as foreign secretary, she was compelled to share the opulent Chevening residence in Kent with her predecessor, Dominic Raab, and would open the refrigerator to discover “protein shakes labelled ‘Raab’.”
The Member of Parliament for Norfolk is also critical of the level of personal support offered to prime ministers of the United Kingdom, stating, “I had to arrange my own hair and makeup appointments despite becoming one of the most photographed people in the country.”
Some individuals asserted that the flea infestation in the prime ministerial apartment atop the Number 10 offices originated from Dilyn, the dog of her predecessor Boris Johnson.
Additionally, Ms. Truss disclosed that she and her spouse had placed an order for new furnishings for the dwelling, but were evicted before their delivery.
Ms Truss, who was describing the extracts, states that the fact that the Queen died on her second full day as the prime minister left her in a “state of disbelief” and wondering, “Why me? “Now, why?”
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