Meaning of Trussian | Babel Free

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

UK

Examples

““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.””

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“These are perfectly consistent with the new Prime Minister’s approach to the world, and she should focus on telling a story of how these will build to a longer-term Trussian approach after the election.”

“It is Scotland’s good fortune, even so, that the country will not be an immediate or urgent priority for Trussian attention.”

“But one does not attend a Meghan Markle speech – her first in Britain since 2020’s Megxit – expecting either profundity or revelation, any more than one would hope for Wildean (or even Trussian) sallies of wit.”

“Yet her lack of polish gives her authenticity. Perhaps we shall just have to get used to her odd, Trussian ways.”

“But at the centre of the Trussian flight-from-reality is her failure to explain how her commitment to lower taxes as the engine of growth[…]”

“With what could yet come to be seen as Trussian bluntness, this became apparent in her first answer to him.”

“‘It’s that Trussian lack of polish that gives her welcome authenticity’”

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