The short-lived prime minister was in a hurry to get things done, her former speechwriter tells the BBC.
"And at the same time Liz was someone who knew what she thought, known it for years, and so finally had the biggest chance yet to make her programme a reality.
The Treasury orthodoxy "was something that just had to change because it was not able to unleash Britain's potential in her view", he said.He said Ms Truss had spent years sitting around the cabinet table and felt she knew what the solutions were to the country's economic problems. "She also knew that this was the moment to put rocket boosters on the economy and get growth going.
"She can embrace the jokes, and that's a part of her personality. Then she could see that she was bullet-proof as a result."sacked her long-time political ally and friend, Kwasi Kwarteng, as chancellorMr Bennett said that was very hard for her. "Liz and Kwasi are very, very close friends, longstanding friends. They lived in the same area of London. They'd known each other for a while.
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