Ten Years To Save The West
Lessons from the only Conservative in the room
In Ten Years to Save the West, Truss, who as Prime Minister sought to champion limited government and individual freedom, will argue that the rise of authoritarianism around the world and the adoption of fashionable ideas propagated by the global left give us barely a decade to preserve the economic and cultural freedom and institutions that the West holds so dear.
Peppered with newsworthy anecdotes from Truss's time in public life — such as her memorable last meeting with Queen Elizabeth II, her challenges to Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping as Foreign Secretary, her encounters with the Trump administration as Trade Secretary, and her dismay at the political class's attempt to betray Brexit — Ten Years to Save the West will also offer a timely warning about the perils facing conservatism in the years ahead.
In it, Truss will warn that too many of her fellow conservatives have allowed themselves to be captured by the left-wing influences that set the agenda and frame the debate in so many institutions from the media to academia and the corporate world.
She will also call for a return to the alliances built by leaders such as Reagan, Thatcher and others in another era when Western values were under siege. Only if the West recommits to building both strong societies and strong economies, unhampered by big government and regulation, Truss argues, can we guarantee voters a free and meaningful choice in their destiny.
Liz Truss served as the 56th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — the first British Prime Minister to have been educated at a state comprehensive school. She is a long-standing advocate for limited government, low taxes and freedom, both in the UK and around the world. The Conservative Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk since 2010, she continuously held ministerial office for more than ten years between 2012 and 2022 and, after an initial spell as a junior education minister, sat at the Cabinet table in six different roles prior to becoming Prime Minister: Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice; Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Secretary of State for International Trade; and Foreign Secretary, as well as Minister for Women and Equalities.