Letter from London

Dominic McGrath: Just when you think the Tories can’t get any more unpopular, Liz Truss returns

The former prime minister is enjoying a lot of airtime promoting her new book, much to the chagrin of her former Conservative colleagues

Liz Truss’ book claims ‘she is the only conservative in the room’

Liz Truss has a lot of enemies. Vested interests in the nursery industry. Her old school. China. The Bank of England. Bat bridges. And of course, on frequent occasions, her own party.

Such a varied list of opponents may be the price, as the cover of her new book has it, of being "the only conservative in the room".

Ten Years to Save the West, for which the former British prime minister received a princely ...