Trussian

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1. UKgovernmentOf or pertaining to Liz Truss (born 1975), British politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2022.

   Will the UK’s foreign policy become a form of ‘Trussian Roulette’.

   2022 July 25, Barry Didcock, “Is Liz Truss the new Maggie or a Lib Dem mole?”, in The Herald

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   “It's a very Trussian style of politics, this free-market, American-inspired, pro-deregulation, libertarian style of politics,” says Sherrington, “and she has close relationships with many of these think-tanks.”

   2021 January 29, Tristan Kennedy, “Britain’s Trade Advisers Include a Man Who Called Climate Science ‘Absolute Crap’”, in Vice

   ‘Trussian’ economics has much in common with Johnsonian bluster, writes John Mclaren.

   2022 July 28, The Scotsman, page 21 (image)

   With that record of revisionist chutzpah it is easy to see why Truss thinks she can wipe the slate clean. Declare Year One of the Trussian Age.

   2022 August 3, Rafael Behr, “Johnson’s school of half-truths could spell victory for Truss”, in The Guardian, page 2

   In the present day, it looks likely that Liz Truss will win. This is due to her willingness to tell Tory fairy tales (Trussian fairy tales) and embrace magical thinking on taxes, public spending and economics, all of which the Tory membership, still supporting the Thatcherite mirage, want to believe.

   2022 August 3, Gerry Hassan, “Tory Britain is over”, in Scottish Review

   And as the Trussian juggernaut rules the waves, next week is unlikely to be Rishi's Trafalgar, but almost certainly his Waterloo.

   2022 August 25, Madeline Grant, “Truss rules the waves in Norwich while Rishi Partridge meets his Waterloo”, in The Telegraph