SHE COULD HAVE DONE IT. Doing it would have required a 96-year-old not dying, and going on not dying for at least a bit longer. But there was definitely a road to Liz Truss still being prime minister. And it’s hard to see how she could be doing worse, or polling less, than Rishi Sunak.
The Queen had to live. Had that happened, the momentum would have been with Team Truss. They could have sacked more people (as they meant to, in their summer of planning at Chevening).