As Liz Truss prepares to leave Downing Street after 47 days in power, the PM’s reputation is in tatters. Seeing out the reigning monarch after seventy years, spooking the financial markets like a distant hyena terrifies a family of meerkats, and, incredibly, tanking the Tories’ poll rating to its lowest ever level at the same time as paying everybody’s gas bill. But listen, Liz. I wouldn’t worry. Because it doesn’t take very long before people start pining for and eulogising former prime ministers that drove them potty when they actually were in office.
Just this weekend gone, singer Tanita Tikaram sent a much-liked tweet saying she would like Gordon Brown back. Theresa May pretty instantly developed a camp coterie of young gay Tory men who revel in the ‘shade’ she throws from the back benches. Even the rarely-spotted David Cameron has his admirers.
The further back you go, the warmer the nostalgic glow.
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