Liz Truss, Brexit, Boris Johnson: British writer Nick Hornby doesn’t hate his country. But at the moment he feels drawn into the tragedy of politics.
A hundred years ago, in the summer of 2022, when it became clear that Liz Truss would emerge victorious from the Conservative leadership race, I ventured a prediction. With the confidence of a man who knows politics, I announced that her own party would replace her before the next 2024 elections. How little Truss was good was not only impossible to overlook and overhear, it was also generally known.