Liz Truss says she ‘gets it’ – but how many more U-turns can she stomach? | Simon Jenkins

A disastrous conference may force the prime minister into a humiliating return to the moderate Toryism she rejected

There are two phases to any project, launch and relaunch. After the wreckage of her party conference last week, few relaunches are more urgent than that signalled by Liz Truss’s cry that she “gets it”. Forget any charm offensive. She must dismantle – call it redefine – her rejection of Boris Johnson’s moderate Toryism, approved by the electorate in 2019, and must do it fast.

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