Examine the journey more closely, though, and it begins to look even more remarkable. The human flotsam that happens to be transported downstream to the doors of No 10. A journey with no ideas or purpose beyond adapting to her surroundings and rising to the top. The failures were spectacular. However, also remarkably successful. Each time, it appears in a more powerful iteration. Samuel Beckett couldn’t help but stand back and applaud. He is literally living his dream. Get version 1.0 of Radon Liz. It is a gas, but it is inert. This was back in the early days of David Cameron’s leadership. No one was more socially liberal than Truss. No one ever hugged a husky tighter. Or embrace austerity harder. As and when required. This Liz was also a staunch rest. I can remember meeting her in the spin room of a televised debate during the referendum campaign. He bent my ear at length about how Vote Leave was based on lies and this rest was going to be defeated in a canter. Without sweat. No disturbance. This was probably the first time I seriously entertained the idea that the UK was going to leave the EU. Its reward for failure was promotion. Radon Liz 2.0 turned out to be passionate. Much more than many people who had supported Brexit since then. It wasn’t that now he reckoned what was done was done, there was no going back and we just had to make the best of it. It was that staying in the EU was a mistake. Thought crime. Deadly sin. This was Truss dressing up in union jack for photos at every available opportunity. Who was never happier than when playing Margaret Thatcher in a tank. While the economy soared. This version was also awarded with more and more government trinkets. The latest version, Liz 3.0, is almost incomprehensible. He has slipped so far through the Tory right-wing gaze that in some parallel universes he seems to have adopted Marxist economics. Dialectic has never been so confusing. Both respect the memory of Boris Johnson, saying he wouldn’t have changed a thing, yet trash the government’s record. Her recipe for getting the economy back on track is to reverse national insurance increases and cut personal and corporate tax. How he would do this, he has not said. Right now it is enough to just talk in riddles. It’s exhausting though. To keep up with Radon Liz’s journey, you need to be able to run fast. She is the anti-ideologue. The anti-belief politician. Not so much a set of ideas looking for their natural home as the ambition to look for some ideas. No idea. If you don’t like hers, she has others. Because here’s the thing. The truss is tabula rasa. A terrible 1980s computer with a permanently cached screen. One capable of reinventing herself almost at will. And it just so happens that every time he needs some new ideas, he comes up with a set that reflects exactly what is needed to enable him to climb even higher in the Tory party. It’s one hell of a coincidence. Imagine a person having that much luck. It’s almost like he doesn’t believe in anything at all. The ultimate shapeshifter. “Tonight, Matthew, I will be whatever you want.” For reasons that aren’t entirely clear to anyone, Truss has hit paydirt with version 3.0. It is certain that her journey is now complete. No one is calling the next seven weeks a pointless, extended coronation yet, but we’re not far from that point. The latest incarnation of Radon Liz has hit the sweet spot of Tory members. Partly because you’re not Rish! – there are many who will never forgive him for betraying the Condemned – but mostly by telling them what they want to hear. If she were a little brighter, she’d be surprised that so many people could forget this Reese! he didn’t increase public borrowing and he didn’t raise taxes because he is a socialist. He did it because the country was collapsing in a pandemic. But when you’re on a roll, you’re on a roll. And Liz is living her best life as Prime Minister while waiting. So much so that she is almost relaxed. As the AI ​​relaxes. Her interview with Nick Robinson on the Today program went through with few alarms. She even found her way into the building and got out without having to call security. A huge improvement over last week’s launch. And he even managed to talk in regular bolts without sounding too robotic. Close your eyes and you could almost imagine he was human. She knew her plan for unfunded tax cuts wasn’t inflationary because Patrick Minford told her so. This was the economist who predicted that Brexit would increase GDP by 7% and that food prices would fall. Bring on the Nobel Prize. Later on Thursday afternoon, Radon Liz was at Little Miracles, a charity for children with limiting and other disabilities, and seemed quite comfortable. He must have made countless visits like this as a constituency MP. She spoke to the children briefly about the inconvenience of being followed by the media. He looked carefully at the collection of cartoonists. But there was kindness and laughter in her eyes. She can at least see the absurdity of someone like her becoming prime minister. And he believes in a free press. Unlike Rish!. Truss then walked over to the parents and listened as they shared their experiences. I then asked two of them, Wendy and Brian – not Tory voters either – what they thought. Pretty cool, they said. Although the proof would be in the tradition. If Truss was properly spending money on social services, this would be a first. By then Radon Lees had moved on. It was time for him to say he was in favor of a new royal yacht, provided it was funded by Tesco, and that it was Labour’s worst nightmare. The wet dream is more like it. But she is entitled to her delusions. And with that he left. Job done. It was Liz’s quintessential experience. Fascinatingly superficial. Little Miracles would still be short of funds and parents would still struggle to get the services their children needed. But more importantly, Truss would be in Downing Street. He left as he came. Without trace. On brand to the last.

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