Who will Liz Truss go after next – the lettuce?

I wonder if Liz Truss is familiar with the “Streisand effect”? Now you might think that it’s not possible for Truss to make herself into an even more ridiculous – not to say derided – phenomenon than she already is, but her legal “cease and desist” letter to the prime minister proves that, in this field at least, she is peerless. The term “crashed the economy” may not literally be true because, as her lawyers stress without a hint of irony, she wasn’t allowed to hang around long enough to watch inflation soar and the economy slump into recession, but the damage to the real economy inflicted by her disastrous policies was real and long-lasting, and just as corrosive to her party’s reputation for economic competence. That they were reversed – and Truss removed – before things got even worse is hardly the “win” Truss’s legal team seems to think. Unlike the admirable Streisand and her legal blunder, Truss doesn’t have an otherwise glittering collection of achievements to set aside one unfortunate error of judgement: Not even the political equivalent of Streisand’s 1983 film Yentl, described as a “musical vanity project about a cross-dressing religious scholar.