Out Of The Blue is just as much an internal story about healing and finding peace within, as it is a story about angels that fall from the sky. The novel strikes a superb balance between external plot and internal progress that is sure to appeal to fans of YA fiction and fantasy... continued As one of the many people who lost a lot of money due to Liz Truss and her economic policies, I hoped to learn more about her logic for it all. I’m not sure I did though.

Someone who “desires to be different for the sake of it” and is “more concerned with grabbing the limelight than believing anything”Cole has long been rumoured to have been the recipient of Truss’s leaks when she was a cabinet member – Dominic Cummings was explicit in this accusation. So while it isn’t an authorised biography, you sense that Truss herself has been the source of a fair amount of the information in the book. I can't say, having read this book, that I'm more in-the-know about any of this than I was before. What I would want to learn is, if some of her leadership flaws were evident earlier in her career, why didn't they stop her from rising to the top? The book says she was sometimes accused of leaking, was occasionally rude to staff, and could have achieved more in certain ministerial roles - but that is mainly it, and the writers say she always worked her way through it and didn't let it deter her. We have to ask, is politics really so full of second-raters that someone who ultimately wasn't fit for the job was over-promoted, by her peers, to Prime Minister? Having worked in Westminster, I know there are some capable and good people there, despite it being an incredibly volatile and at times toxic environment. And if anyone did have serious doubts, who were they, and what would they say? Their voices are not really in this book - which suggests to me that the writers were somewhat inclined towards Truss, trying to deliver an, on-balance, favourable book, without the insight of her foes. Because this isn't an over-exaggeration: Liz Truss was the worst Prime Minister in our history, and her mini-budget did real damage to the finances of many hardworking British people, especially regarding mortgages. Many in her own party would agree, having thrown her out so venomously just a few months ago. It’s hard to imagine that there is much appetite for knowing more about Truss. Even her most ardent supporters could probably do with knowing a little less. But here it is, nonetheless, a 300-leaved lettuce that was past its sell-by date before it reached the shelves. Truss maintains she is interested in outcome, not process. Seldom has a prime minister been more wrong about herself Good account of Liz Truss' early career in particular, and of time in cabinet. Account of her period as PM seemed very brief and felt like more depth needed. One assumes this may appear in later analyses. With her manic eagerness, cheap publicity stunts, fixed stare looking somewhere over the horizon, and GCSE level political fixed ideas, she could be a parody of Reese Witherspoon’s character from the movie Election. Unfortunately, she is a real politician, who, in her short premiership, succeeded in damaging the economy and the status of the country.

The authors rushed the publication soon after her sudden fall from grace, to attract people like me, who looked to find an answer to a baffling question – how her premiership became possible? This book provides an insight into Liz Truss, her style as a political operator, and the evolution of her espoused beliefs. It describes in detail the circumstances that engendered her rise to becoming the most popular cabinet minister among Conservative members, securing sufficient support among the parliamentary party, and finally winning the members’ ballot. I think the book elucidates how success at each stage was disparate and distinctly gained and how contingent her victory perhaps was.LabourList has more readers than ever before - but we need your support. Our dedicated coverage of Labour's policies and personalities, internal debates, selections and elections relies on donations from our readers. Bad biography about Britain's worst Prime Minister written by a client journalist that still makes her out to be an utterly incompetent narcissist. The champagne corks have barely finished popping in celebration of Faith's fifteen years of wedded bliss with Peter before a small, niggling doubt sets in. On the surface, Faith and Peter have a lot to be thankful for: two teenage children, an enduring partnership and glamorous media careers – he as a publisher, she as a TV weather girl.