Truss, who lost longevity battle to a lettuce, is on comeback trail through Washington, DC?

Remember The Daily Star tabloid's Liz Truss vs Lettuce contest?

Hats off to Politico, which has a killer piece from Washington, D.C. about Liz Truss’s trip to America’s capital last month. It seems that the woman who lost the longevity battle to a lettuce (and practically crashed the pound, meanwhile) believes the comeback trail lies through the Beltway.

Perhaps Ms Truss has forgotten the scorn her disastrous premiership drew from the Biden administration. Perhaps she was happy to be (kinda) cheered on her way by Republicans, some of whom want Trussonomics-style uber neo-liberalism. It’s really a sort of arson attack on government takings and its logic is as follows: by making it difficult to collect revenue for the functions of government, government ceases to function.

Politico’s Alexander Burns spoke to Republicans who met Britain’s shortest serving prime minister. In Mr Burns’ words, Ms Truss seemed to still be “determined to rouse Britain from economic stagnation — and intimated tha…