MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Radical Liz Truss ideas still have their value trends now
Many people will be more than a little surprised to find that Liz Truss is still contemplating some sort of political comeback.
Surely, they will argue, she was defeated and removed, failed in her endeavours and must therefore take the consequences of her fall.
Perhaps, in time, through think-tanks and quangos, and by dogged hard work, she might make her way back into active politics.
Iain Duncan Smith did this after an experience nearly as humiliating, when he was ejected as Tory leader.
And yet an important doubt remains. Ms Truss, unquestionably, mishandled the politics of her time in office.
Many people will be more than a little surprised to find that Liz Truss is still contemplating some sort of political comeback
She did not secure her flanks before making a risky, bold advance towards properly Tory radical economic policies.
And so her enemies and rivals, as enemies and rivals will do, saw her political weakness and defeated her.
The Tory Party was, at that stage, in a state of heightened excitement and navel-gazing, feverish and unstable.
Having destroyed – for no good reason – its best leader for years, Boris Johnson, it plunged into an experiment which it then lacked the nerve to follow through.
And now, under the calm but not very Tory leadership of Rishi Sunak, it struggles to work out what to do to save itself.
Well, for sure, punishing its supporters with the highest taxes in three generations is unlikely to do the trick.
If people want to pay a lot of tax, and not get very much in return, then the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats are the people to go to.
Nothing so far in this government suggests that the orthodox ultra-caution of Mr Sunak and his Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is bearing much fruit.
Ms Truss as a politician may have a long, hard walk
