"What’s the point of Liz Truss?", The New Statesman (19 April 2024)
• From a review of Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss (Biteback).
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First, at the Treasury and subsequently at International Trade and then at the Foreign Office, she became adept at self-promotion. Not that one would pick that up from her account. She rails at the “trivialisation” of politics but was known as much for her Instagram posts as her policy positions; she complains of her time as prime minister about “a growing culture of leaks” but was widely suspected by her colleagues of being the most prolific leaker of cabinet meetings, presumably because she hoped to win favourable press coverage.

— David Gauke

What It Means

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• From a review of Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss (Biteback)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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David Gauke

About David Gauke

David Michael Gauke (/ɡɔːk/; born 8 October 1971) is a British political commentator, solicitor and former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Hertfordshire from 2005 to 2019. He served in the Cabinet under Theresa May, including as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor from 2018 to 2019. First elected as a Conservative, Gauke had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and, until the dissolution, sat as an independent politician.