For now, she’s holding up. It’s a little faded, but it’s holding up. No, it’s not about Liz Truss, the current tenant of 10 Downing Street, but about a salad, filmed day and night on the website of daily star, with this caption: “Will Liz Truss outlast this lettuce?” That is seven to ten days, according to biologists.
It is not won, as the situation of the British Prime Minister seems critical. In power since September 5, Liz Truss has managed the feat of causing a major financial crisis in less than three weeks. His controversial fiscal policy panicked the markets. Appointed in an emergency on October 14, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt (his predecessor lasted only thirty-eight days) announced that he was canceling almost all of the Prime Minister’s tax measures – which are hard to see how she could survive this humiliation. Already, Conservative MPs are talking about replacing her.
Others doubt that the country will accept the arrival of a third conservative leader in three years. Should we go through early elections, as demanded by Labor, well ahead of the polls? In 2019, Labor lost the ballot – because part of its electorate considered the ideology of its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to be too radical. Today, “trussism” plays the same repulsive effect with some of the conservatives, tired of magical thinking and sleeve effects. Liz Truss, the “right-wing Corbyn”, will she suffer the same fate?