OUT OF THE BLUE: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE UNEXPECTED RISE AND RAPID FALL OF LIZ TRUSS

HARRY COLE AND JAMES HEALE, LIZ TRUSS’S BIOGRAPHERS IN DISCUSSION WITH SAVILIAN DAVID OLDROYD-BOLT

Liz Truss caused many sleepless nights during her 49-day stint in power but few suffered more than her two biographers, who quickly became her political obituarists. Harry Cole, the Political Editor of The Sun, and James Heale, the Diary Editor of the Spectator began writing the 330-page book less than a fortnight before Truss entered No 10 and concluded it on the day she left, just seven weeks later. How did it all happen? What factors were behind the rise and fall of Britain’s shortest-serving premier? And what was it like to produce a book in such extraordinary circumstances? These questions and more will be answered by Cole and Heale (Savilian, 2022) by David Oldroyd-Bolt when he interviews the pair about Out of the Blue – the first biography of Liz Truss.