Liz Truss claims the Bank of England, not her mini-budget, brought down her government in her new book 'Bank Job'

Liz Truss has published 'Bank Job', her second book since leaving Downing Street, blaming the Bank of England's decision to begin quantitative tightening — not her £45bn unfunded mini-budget — for the 2022 market crisis that ended her 49-day premiership. The former PM also claims MPs are largely powerless, telling a podcast that "unelected bureaucrats" are the real force in Westminster and that politicians are "lying about how powerful they are." Critics have savaged the book as dense, peevish and self-pitying, with reviewers largely united in mockery.

Kwasi Kwarteng, her own chancellor during the mini-budget, has faced pointed questions about Truss's claims.

One columnist notes she is politically so toxic that even Nigel Farage is unlikely to work with her.