The lady’s not for learning: Liz Truss tells US group she was right all along

The Guardian says she’s back. Sort of. Liz Truss, a former British prime minister whose tenure lasted only 50 days, sought to revive her political career and economic agenda on Wednesday with a major speech – more than 3,500 miles from home.

Truss’s unlikely comeback attempt was perhaps guaranteed a warmer welcome at the Heritage Foundation (a somewhat stuffy conservative thinktank in Washington that has its own Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom) than at many places in her native Britain.

Knowing her audience, the ex-PM used her 2023 Margaret Thatcher Freedom Lecture to assail “wokeism”, praise Ronald Reagan, take swipes at France’s Emmanuel Macron and even borrow from Donald Trump’s playbook by portraying herself as the victim of a vast political conspiracy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/12/liz-truss-speech-sketch-heritage-foundation