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How did it all go so wrong, so fast, for Liz Truss?

Truss is squarely in the libertarian box. Her policies thrust her into the political wilderness, into a barren quadrant where few voters may be found.

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Liz Truss, Britain’s newish prime minister, has fallen from grace faster than any leader I can think of.

According to a poll released on Monday, she has only 9 per cent approval among British voters – a performance that would probably be impossible in the United States, where extreme political polarisation guarantees that even a leader who, say, instigated a violent insurrection will retain a large base of support.

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Paul Krugman is a New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winning economist.

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