Chances are you didn’t read Liz Truss’s debut book Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons from the Only Conservative in the Room, published in April 2024.
The part-memoir, part guide to conservative renewal, penned by the United Kingdom’s shortest-ever serving prime minister, sold 2,228 copies in its first week, crashing into the bestsellers’ list at number 70 and then dropped a further 47% the following week.
It was also critically panned, with the Guardian describing it as “shamelessly unrepentant” and “unstoppably self-serving”, one of her own MPs, Tim Loughton, writing it was “a litany of blatant self-justification and blame” and numerous Amazon reviewers noting a weird amount of space devoted to a flea infestation at Downing Street and how difficult it was getting a new sofa delivered there.
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But you can’t keep a good woman down! Truss has now announced details of her second book, Bank Job: A Short Book on how the Bank of England Broke the Bond Market and Brought Down the Government, a snappily-titled tome in which she details in full once again how the mini-budget which crashed the economy and cut short her brief tenure in office was the fault of everybody except herself.
Published by Free Speech Press, a tiny publishing operation whose current authors include conspiracy theorist Neil Oliver, far right hackette Sophie Corcoran and Boris Johnson’s former IT teacher Jennifer Arcuri, Bank Job is illustrated with a picture of the people who Truss thinks brought down the economy, including former Bank of England Andrew Bailey and former PMs Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, all clad in sunglasses and Reservoir Dogs-style suits and ties.
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“In this explosive insider account, former British prime minister Liz Truss revisits the extraordinary events of 2022 from inside Downing Street, challenging the establishment narrative surrounding the Mini-Budget and revealing a far deeper struggle over who really controls Britain,” runs the blurb.
“Truss exposes the immense influence wielded by unelected institutions, from the Bank of England and the Treasury to the Office for Budget Responsibility, and reveals how the forces which brought down her government went far beyond economics.”
Exciting! Alas, presumably space constraints mean there is no room for the likes of the actual people who, apart from Truss herself, brought down her government – chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and the unelected institution that is the Institute of Economic Affairs. But at least it shouldn’t take too long to get to the end of this particular whodunnit: the £8.99 book clocks in at exactly 100 pages – pretty much two for every day she lasted in office.
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