Digested week: The Traitors suddenly feels tired – time for a politicians version? | John Crace
Liz Truss is like a broken record, Harry Kane is for ever Spurs, and the celebs in the castle are getting on my nerves You would have thought someone would have made an intervention by now.
Key points
- John Major found himself elevated from national joke to statesman after 20 years; Tony Blair took the grandiose step of establishing his very own institute; Boris Johnson took his grumblings to the Daily Mail where he is now more or less ignored; Theresa May opted for obscurity; we have yet to find out Keir Starmer’s next move.
- Constantly feeling the need to pick away at the wound that will never heal.
- To save Liz Truss from the worst excesses and delusions of herself.
Most former prime ministers – and there are enough of them by now – make the transition into civilian life with little fuss.
Yet Liz Truss seems permanently scarred by her 49 days in office and its abrupt ending.
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