IS OUR new Prime Minister an ideologue or a pragmatist? Liz Truss, to secure her election as the Leader of the Conservative Party, had to set out to appeal to a handful of Tory activists. Having arrived in Downing Street, she now has to win the confidence of a very different set of voters. To her party, she presented herself as a classic free-marketeer set on cutting taxes and shrinking the size of the State. Can Liz Truss square the circle between pragmatism and ideology?

Source: The Times September 08, 2022 23:20 UTC