When a party falls to pieces, look out for the phase in which it starts to blame the world for its own flaws. In a 4,000-word essay in The Daily Telegraph that would have been funnier but no less absurd if it had been written by Lewis Carroll, the 49-day former PM Liz Truss seriously tried to suggest to us that her time in office was cut short because of a Left-wing conspiracy conducted by those notorious pinkos, Treasury officials and bond market traders. Playing the victim is now occupying the psychological space that used to be taken up by blaming the European Union for Britain’s problems. If this takes hold, the party is truly sunk.