Trussian

English

Etymology

From Truss +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Trussian (comparative more Trussian, superlative most Trussian)

1. (UK politics) Of or pertaining to Liz Truss (born 1975), British politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2022.
   • 2021 January 29, Tristan Kennedy, “Britain’s Trade Advisers Include a Man Who Called Climate Science ‘Absolute Crap’”, in Vice‎^[1]:

     “It's a very Trussian style of politics, this free-market, American-inspired, pro-deregulation, libertarian style of politics,” says Sherrington, “and she has close relationships with many of these think-tanks.”

   • 2022 July 25, Barry Didcock, “Is Liz Truss the new Maggie or a Lib Dem mole?”, in The Herald‎^[2]:

     Will the UK’s foreign policy become a form of ‘Trussian Roulette’.

   • 2022 July 28, The Scotsman, page 21 (image):

     ‘Trussian’ economics has much in common with Johnsonian bluster, writes John Mclaren.

   • 2022 August 3, Rafael Behr, “Johnson’s school of half-truths could spell victory for Truss”, in The Guardian, page 2:

     With that record of revisionist chutzpah it is easy to see why Truss thinks she can wipe the slate clean. Declare Year One of the Trussian Age.

   • 2022 August 3, Gerry Hassan, “Tory Britain is over”, in Scottish Review‎^[3]:

     In the present day, it looks likely that Liz Truss will win. This is due to her willingness to tell Tory fairy tales (Trussian fairy tales) and embrace magical thinking on taxes, public spending and economics, all of which the Tory membership, still supporting the Thatcherite mirage, want to believe.

   • 2022 August 25, Madeline Grant, “Truss rules the waves in Norwich while Rishi Partridge meets his Waterloo”, in The Telegraph‎^[4]:

     And as the Trussian juggernaut rules the waves, next week is unlikely to be Rishi's Trafalgar, but almost certainly his Waterloo.

   • 2022 August 31, Rachel Wolf, “Truss’s in tray 3) Rachel Wolf: Levelling Up. There is no time for another new approach. The new Prime Minister must focus on delivery.”, in ConservativeHome‎^[5]:

     These are perfectly consistent with the new Prime Minister’s approach to the world, and she should focus on telling a story of how these will build to a longer-term Trussian approach after the election.

   • 2022 September 4, Alex Massie, “Liz Truss should steer clear of Nicola Sturgeon”, in The Times‎^[6]:

     It is Scotland’s good fortune, even so, that the country will not be an immediate or urgent priority for Trussian attention.

   • 2022 September 6, Alexander Larman, “The Harry ‘n’ Meghan circus shows no sign of coming to an end”, in The Spectator‎^[7]:

     But one does not attend a Meghan Markle speech – her first in Britain since 2020’s Megxit – expecting either profundity or revelation, any more than one would hope for Wildean (or even Trussian) sallies of wit.

   • 2022 September 6, Jan Moir, “Together we can ride out the storm: JAN MOIR watches as the heavens opened before Liz Truss arrived in Downing Street for her big speech. Then, in a moment loaded with cheering symbolism, the skies cleared... and our new Prime Minister addressed the nation”, in Daily Mail‎^[8]:

     Yet her lack of polish gives her authenticity. Perhaps we shall just have to get used to her odd, Trussian ways.

   • 2022 September 7, David Aaronovitch, “Be honest, Liz, and you might earn goodwill”, in The Times‎^[9]:

     But at the centre of the Trussian flight-from-reality is her failure to explain how her commitment to lower taxes as the engine of growth […]

   • 2022 September 7, Kit Sandeman, “The populist baton is free - if Labour want to pick it up”, in The Yorkshire Post‎^[10]:

     With what could yet come to be seen as Trussian bluntness, this became apparent in her first answer to him.

   • 2022 September 7, Scottish Daily Mail, page 6 (image):

     ‘It’s that Trussian lack of polish that gives her welcome authenticity’