The short-term political futures of PM Liz Truss

Liz Truss is the fourth Conservative PM in twelve years, and there are many indications that she could yet be the shortest in office. With a daunting agenda of urgent and fundamental policy issues she has apparently chosen an inflexible, ideological path. But with only a couple of years to recoup the Conservatives’ polls deficit before a general election, Patrick Dunleavy argues that her political future is dominated by risks and hard choices.