Liz Truss has refused to rule out having another go at leading the Conservative Party, which has sent most of Westminster into a fit of pique or giggles. Perhaps this is unsurprising, given that her short time in office resulted in such turmoil on the financial markets.
But while people may balk at the idea of a political comeback by the UK’s shortest serving prime minister, the reaction to her ideas for how to fix some of the problems facing the country exposes a deeper problem which Westminster would be smart to solve.
Wise or wild, Truss is throwing grit into the machine – a machine which isn’t as well-oiled as it ought to be. There are problems piling up across Whitehall which will take creative thinking and fresh ideas to fix.
Whether her calls to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, scrap the Supreme Court and the Human Rights Act and think again about how much control the Civil Service has over policymaking are workable or not, they are worth consideration – if only to stress test the way things currently run.
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