Review: Out of the Blue. The Inside Story of the Unexpected Rise and Rapid Fall of Liz Truss, by Harry Cole and James Heale

In recent years it has been unusual to encounter a single book on British politics whose title offers the hope of a happy ending. Thanks to the Conservative Party and some well-informed journalists, two of these rare bibliographical blessings appeared almost simultaneously towards the end of 2022. They are tales of incompetence and over-promotion, whose subjects exhibited sharply contrasting political styles—an amoral, shape-shifting populist in one case; an inflexible, semi-articulate free market fanatic in the other.