Is She Going to Do Trickle-Down Economics?

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Britain has been growing at a lot slower rate than usual since the 2008 financial crisis. The country's economy is much more heavily dominated by financial services. There was a general sense of malaise in the country, you know, a frustration with how things are going. In the end, I think all of that pressure together forced this radical prime minister to take one gamble too many and it blew up in her face.

Liz Truss accomplished at least one thing in her 45 days as prime minister: She set a record for the shortest term in office. The Atlantic’s Tom McTague explains her disastrous tenure.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

Correction, October 21: An earlier version of the episode misattributed a quote to British politician Penny Mordaunt. The error has been corrected.

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