Very low on insight, and it's clear how hastily this was written, and then rewritten. Traces of the redemption narrative the authors hoped to tell - of Truss vindicated - are visible throughout. The most interesting elements are about...

They quote some of the people who know her, including her followers and adversaries, but on the whole, the book is just a short summary of her career. What a wasted opportunity. Full of secondary sources, rather than primary ones, this is not much more than a cut and paste job. In a very blue house on a very blue street, sits a little boy who feels as blue as the world around him. There's something deeply pathetic and unbecoming about her 'rider'; demands (while FS) for a bottle of white wine in the fridge at every overnight stay, and her aides hastily trying to rearrange her diplomatic engagements the next day to cover up her hangovers.I feel for the writers of this book. I think, if Truss were still Prime Minister, and the events that brought her down never happened, they would have a more successful biography here. However, we have to talk about the most notable time of her life, which is when she was PM. The book covers the events ever so briefly, in the form of a couple of chapters and an unnecessary "epilogue", but doesn't enlighten us as to how or why exactly they happened, and fails to offer anything that I didn't already know from following the news. We can all sympathise with the timing of her start as PM coming just before the late Queen's death. That was the saddest of moments for the country and the worst time to become PM. But putting that aside, as a non-political event, Truss afterwards came across as tone-death, out-of-touch, and unable to communicate her ideas to the public or the markets. Why was that? We are told that there were problems with more realistic voices among civil servants and aides being drowned out in her team and let down by a chaotic structure. We learn that she had at least three different mobile phones during various points of her leadership campaign and time in Number 10 - and sometimes people she was working with didn't have her phone number and couldn't reach her. We also discover that, maybe, her and her other record-breaking colleague, the shortest-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwazi Kwarteng, had been planning their mortgage-busting, market-torpedoing, pound-shrinking fiscal event at the beginning of her Conservative leadership campaign, and failed to be completely forthcoming about it during that time. This last snippet, however, seemed more of a guess than concrete reporting, unfortunately. As one of the many people who lost a lot of money due to Liz Truss and her economic policies, I hoped to learn more about her logic for it all. I’m not sure I did though. Truss' drinking (and the drinking culture around her), which for me is more damning and unprofessional than anything witnessed under Boris during partygate. Cole and Heale conclude that for a decade she “got away with trying to mix principle with pragmatism, alongside unashamed opportunism”, which is hardly a ringing endorsement. However, they do point out that anyone would have struggled as PM, because in spite of the triumphalism that followed, the Tory party has been rendered ungovernable by the splits that have opened up since Brexit. I can't say, having read this book, that I'm more in-the-know about any of this than I was before. What I would want to learn is, if some of her leadership flaws were evident earlier in her career, why didn't they stop her from rising to the top? The book says she was sometimes accused of leaking, was occasionally rude to staff, and could have achieved more in certain ministerial roles - but that is mainly it, and the writers say she always worked her way through it and didn't let it deter her. We have to ask, is politics really so full of second-raters that someone who ultimately wasn't fit for the job was over-promoted, by her peers, to Prime Minister? Having worked in Westminster, I know there are some capable and good people there, despite it being an incredibly volatile and at times toxic environment. And if anyone did have serious doubts, who were they, and what would they say? Their voices are not really in this book - which suggests to me that the writers were somewhat inclined towards Truss, trying to deliver an, on-balance, favourable book, without the insight of her foes. Because this isn't an over-exaggeration: Liz Truss was the worst Prime Minister in our history, and her mini-budget did real damage to the finances of many hardworking British people, especially regarding mortgages. Many in her own party would agree, having thrown her out so venomously just a few months ago.

The authors rushed the publication soon after her sudden fall from grace, to attract people like me, who looked to find an answer to a baffling question – how her premiership became possible? In a world where only one colour is allowed, will he be brave enough to tell his dad? And will they be able to defy the rules and create a world where EVERY colour is welcome? Good account of Liz Truss' early career in particular, and of time in cabinet. Account of her period as PM seemed very brief and felt like more depth needed. One assumes this may appear in later analyses.

But it’s perhaps significant too that she had got away with so much in the past, leading to an overconfidence about her ability to wing it – as she did even in the early days of her leadership campaign. If there’s one thing missing from this juicy tale of high political farce, it’s arguably a more unsparing account of what allowed a politician so flawed to rise so high at the expense of us all: a previous leader promoting her to spite his rivals, a dysfunctional Conservative party, but also an indulgent rightwing press that turned on her only when it was too late. Less a drama from “out of the blue”, perhaps, than a car crash waiting to happen.

It reminded me of just how much I struggle with political lobby journalism - even if the subject matter is sensational by their standards: I find it incredibly boring. Endless job titles and departments and fields and minor office personalities that mean little to me (I still have no idea what the Cabinet Office does mind, though looking it up has probably been in my New Year's resolutions lists for thirty years). Her narcissism, and vapid obsession with social media. Neglecting diplomats and meetings to craft the perfect caption, and driving all over towns looking for the perfect photo op - while leaving guests waiting. Social media is a valid tool for politicians to promote their agenda; but much like the drinking, her social media use appears more like that of a dependant teenager.It's so important that little ones grow up and see their type of family set-up reflected in the books you share with them. Here's a list of our favourite children's books that show – and celebrate – diverse families.Perfect for babies all the way up to aged five. The only thing you get out or this book is that Liz Truss is not a likeable person, nor a good one, nor a brilliantly competent one. I suspect many of us had already guessed that. The basic story of Truss is by now well established: the geeky, outspoken daughter of a couple of leftish Cambridge graduates, who fell for the contrariness of libertarianism at Oxford, became a Tory and rose rapidly up the party ranks to become prime minister. It’s the familiar narrative that is retold here, albeit with some wit, insight and a well-informed ear for the telling detail. There is little about her non-work life, except I learned a bit about her slightly mysterious husband, and that her daughter is named Liberty because of her libertarianism.

But a casual, barbed comment by her bitchy magazine editor friend Lili makes Faith wonder whether her world is as wonderful as it seems on the surface. Is Peter's odd behaviour of late purely the result of stress at work? Is Faith really too smug and trusting?

Another mayonnaise-hating zealot (Jr) bought me this surprisingly engaging read for Christmas. If only the shitshow it describes were a comedy instead of real life. The champagne corks have barely finished popping in celebration of Faith's fifteen years of wedded bliss with Peter before a small, niggling doubt sets in. On the surface, Faith and Peter have a lot to be thankful for: two teenage children, an enduring partnership and glamorous media careers – he as a publisher, she as a TV weather girl.