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Out of the Blue: Gripping story of the woman who should never have been British PM

Lively and colourful biography of Liz Truss details how the woman who served just 49 chaotic days at 10 Downing Street had a shrewd knowledge of her personal limitations, but combined it with a wild overestimation of her political abilities

Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of the Unexpected Rise and Rapid Fall of Liz Truss (above) is a lively and colourful read about the former British prime minister. Picture: Getty

“I think I would be a very good prime minister,” Liz Truss told a colleague earlier this year. “Three are just two problems: I am weird and I don’t have any friends. How can you help me fix that?”

As Harry Cole and James Heale show in their surprisingly gripping biography, this vignette perfectly sums up the paradox of a woman destined to serve just 49 chaotic days at 10 Downing Street. Truss clearly had ...