This biography of Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister was overtaken by events, but its lively style and air of authority illuminates her failings
Back in what now seems like the distant past – August – a biography of Liz Truss looked to be a well-timed book for the Tory shires Christmas market. Two of the maddest months in recent history later and Out of the Blue by the Sun’s political editor, Harry Cole, and James Heale of the Spectator became a joke social media meme, with a fake image showing the cover at a hugely knocked down price doing the rounds.
You have to feel for the biographers, whose rushed book originally had the subtitle: “The inside story of Liz Truss and her astonishing rise to power”. Yet despite their speediest efforts, their subject had already passed into history. With publication brought forward, the subtitle now reads, with a good deal more pathos: “The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss”.
