No One Saw Liz Truss Coming. Just As She Planned It.
Liz Truss speaks on stage on in Birmingham, England. (Anthony Devlin via Getty Images)
'We love a bedraggled, posh man. But the spoddy, grammar school girl? We just don’t like all that hard work.'
In February, then-Foreign Secretary Liz Truss flew to Moscow on a government jet to warn Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine. She donned a Russian-style fur hat—just as her heroine, Margaret Thatcher, did when she visited the Russian capital 35 years ago. Truss posed for a picture on Red Square. She took part in a wreath-laying ceremony. She had a tens…
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