The lady’s not for learning: Liz Truss tells US group she was right all along

Britain's shortest-serving prime minister tries to channel Margaret Thatcher to buff her image - 3,500 miles from her legacy of political chaos and near economic disaster

She's back. Sort of. Liz Truss, a former British prime minister whose tenure lasted only 50 days, sought to revive her political career and economic agenda on Wednesday with a major speech - more than 3,500 miles from home.

Truss's unlikely comeback attempt was perhaps guaranteed a warmer welcome at the Heritage Foundation (a somewhat stuffy conservative thinktank in Washington that has its own Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom) than at many places in her native Britain.