Commentary
The resignation of Liz Truss after barely six weeks as the UK prime minister is seen by many commentators as the consequence of pursuing “extremist, experimental” economic policies.
Yet Sir Humphrey Appleby—of “Yes Prime Minister” fame—would have described Truss as “very courageous” in pursuing free market polices, which are now almost universally panned by these same, self-congratulating commentators as “electoral poison.”
The fact is that Truss’s departure from Number 10 is a symptom, not a cause, of what is wrong with centre-right politics across the Anglosphere, for two reasons.
First, centre-right parties in the UK, Canada, and Australia have abandoned core centre-right principles—including economic liberalism—and ceased making the case for them….