‘Bouncebackability’ is a quality that Truss’s supporters say she has in spades, along with an inexhaustible work ethic and a nose for when to ditch a fight she is not going to win. Even Michael Gove admits: ‘You don’t serve under three Prime Ministers, you don’t come back from the assaults and reverses she suffered at the MoJ, you don’t come back from that, you don’t become Prime Minister in a strongly contested field unless you are a good politician.’
