Very cool, if true

Some apposite quotes from her university tutor:

Back in our tutorials, Truss demonstrated an unnerving ability to surprise. No other student matched her mischievous ability to read out essays on any number of the main events in British political history which always managed to say something new; not always accurate, but definitely new.

These essays were creative and self-consciously unconventional. As we argued over the hour, she almost never backed down, even when I did what all Oxford tutors try to do and present fact after fact to try to change her mind. It was frustrating at times, but as a young tutor, I really liked how she insisted her judgment mattered just as much as anyone else’s. Older tutors were probably more frustrated by how she was happy to deviate sharply from the textbooks.
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Sometimes, my colleagues and I would while away the hours trying to work out which of our students might be the cabinet ministers of tomorrow. To us, the future seemed to belong to the technocrats. Clean-cut competence and crystal-clear coherence were the virtues in vogue. And that wasn’t what most characterised Truss then, any more than it is now.
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Her most noticeable characteristic is a capacity to shift, unblinkingly, from one fiercely held belief to another.

It certainly sounds like she felt she could shift from position to position, ignore the "facts" (and quite possibly the facts) and remake the world to her liking. And it's possible that in a world that was rather different (one where we weren't already struggling economically as a country, or where money people were less educated about how badly her approach was likely to work) that she could have gotten away with it for rather longer.

I suspect that she's either doing very badly, or is already in the process of dismissing her failure as being the fault of others for not believing in her truth and so pulling her down before she had a chance at success.