Unlike her hero Taylor Swift, Liz Truss couldn’t be complex and couldn’t be cool: her time as Prime Minister was outlasted by what perhaps became the world’s most famous lettuce. Ten Years of Save The West is her effort to avoid becoming a pub quiz answer. The book is part reflection on her political career and part zooped-up Thatcherite 10 point world domination plan.

Elected in 2010, Truss quickly ascended the ranks of the Conservative Party. Perhaps unsurprisingly, rehashing her party’s destruction isn’t the most riveting story: her recollections are neither insightful nor scandalous. After 14 years of Tory rule and a cacophony of memoirs from C-lister ministers, that’s no surprise. But the extent of her axe-grinding remains amusing. The signature Trussian mad eye-twinkle bounces off her eccentric, Bond villain-like phrasing and sentence structure. Take the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, for instance. Critics of this treaty warned it would lead to an import of diminished food standards from the US. No matter, says Truss, telling us that ‘hundreds of thousands of Britons visit the US every year and merrily devour flavoursome steaks and chicken wings’.