Galling and insulting return was over before it began

Is Liz Truss really having a comeback”? Things move pretty fast these days but does a comeback” not require the person coming back to have first gone away for a considerably longer time than Liz Truss has managed?

- TOM PECK

Take That waited a full decade before their "comeback", and they did so with a whole load of new material arguably superior to all that had gone before. Liz Truss, meanwhile, has managed just 100 days in the apparent wilderness and has come back with the exact same witless, intellectually and economically illiterate drivel that was the precise cause of her having been sent away in the first place.

The Liz Truss "comeback" comes with a very real sense of deja vu. There can be few people who have not witnessed a comeback like it, usually when a friend attempts to "come back" into a nightclub from which they have been removed. No apology? Check. No contrition? Of course not. What we do witness is an eerily familiar scene of absolutely roaring defiance, and a raging certainty that Liz Truss was always right, was not even that pissed and the nightclub security staff - in this case wearily played by the treasury, the markets, her own party and indeed most of the free world - will all be made to pay for ruining her big night.