Pointless: Why Sunak's reshuffle was 'so' bad and will do little to change his party's fortunes

One of the first things you’ll notice about Liz Truss’ memoir in the Telegraph is that if you CTRL+F your way through the piece, there is no mention of the word “sorry” at any point. 

Similarly, if you subject yourself - or indeed, treat yourself if you have a penchant for masochism - then you can always indulge in a turgid, Odyssean 51-minute interview that Truss gave to The Spectator where she essentially says the exact same thing, and shows the same level of contrition. 

Or virtually none, in other words, and what vague contrition is offered appears conditional or reserved. 

Truss herself in the interview said that she did not intend to launch a full comeback - and rightly so; as noted in my previous piece, this level of deluded Tea Party rhetoric and awkward positioning is better suited to US politics than in Britain. 

I also noted in my previous piece that over the last few months Truss has courted the views of The Heritage Foundation; it’s unsurprising to me that her interview is an extension of this theory I have that the former young Liberal Democrat and anti-monarchist has been abducted a la Patty Hearst, fed copious amounts of hallucinogens and indoctrinated by libertarian, right-wing US-based think-tanks. 

This is probably fiction. Probably. 

However - 

Among a number of things, what Truss does for Sunak is serve as this kind of figurehead for the ‘Low Tax’ movement within the Conservatives that is likely to cause certain ideological and factional problems for the Prime Minister moving forward - especially so going into March whenever he intends to unveil his Spring budget. 

This is a future issue, however. The issue now is how individuals like Truss have been left to feel so emboldened by Sunak’s weaknesses - some of which have been on display these past few days.