Eventually, the penny is going to drop for Liz Truss. Eventually, she is going to realise that her version of events from that ill-fated 49-day spell in Downing Street is not the one which resonates with the public. And if she doesn’t take the hint this time, there really is no helping the former Prime Minister.
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Zero-star reviews and a 500-place drop – Liz Truss is at it again…
Following an overwhelmingly negative critical response to her new book ‘Bank Job’ – in which Truss blames everyone but herself for the mini-budget induced market crash of 2022 – the reaction from the public has also been dismal, and any momentum behind the launch has now completely collapsed.
In the first week of sales, Bank Job did alright. It briefly made it into the top 20 of the Amazon Best Sellers list, and for a few days, it looked like Liz Truss might be able to rise above the scathing criticism, which included a very rare ‘zero-star review’ from The Telegraph.
However, interest completely fizzled out during the second week of sales. In total, only 2,600 copies of the title have been sold on. For a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who is purportedly exposing the deep state in a tell-all tale, that’s… well… dreadful.
Whatever morbid curiosity existed among readers has clearly waned. From that early peak, Bank Job has plummeted down the rankings, and as per the figures from Nielsen Data, it currently sits at 533 in the Best Sellers chart. Once again, Liz Truss finds herself a deeply unpopular figure.
Former PM sees book sales tank
Within two years of being turfed out of Number 10, Truss also lost her seat as an MP. Though she remains a member of the Conservative Party, it’s fair to say her political views have since jumped off the deep end, following her embrace of far-right and nationalist causes in her post-Westminster era.
Bank Job has also failed to capture the imagination of Kindle users, where it currently ranks outside the top 5,000 titles. Several colouring books currently outrank her latest memoir, joining ‘a lettuce’ on the list of inanimate objects people prefer to the shortest-serving PM in British history. Fancy that…