These include what she calls the "anti-growth coalition" as well as the judiciary, the civil service, the "global left", and environmental and animal rights organisations.

[11] For the financial crisis that followed from her and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget, she blames the Office for Budget Responsibility, the Bank of England, and the Treasury.

[8] In the section about her time as Prime Minister, Truss talks about the difficulties she had living at 10 Downing Street, saying that the role involves presidential responsibility but without the necessary support.

[15] Patrick Maguire in The Times criticised the book as tedious and muddled, raising interesting questions but offering confusing or contradictory answers to them.

The Independent awarded one out of five stars, calling the book "one giant whinge" that inverted the facts about Truss's career in order to portray her as having done nothing wrong.

He interpreted the book as a story, not of powerful vested interests, but of a politician with "a simplistic mindset and a reckless temperament" who achieved little in her political offices.

[16] Andrew Rawnsley, writing for The Guardian, described it as an "unintentionally hilarious" book characterised by intense self-pity combined with a lack of self-reflection.

[10] Stuart Jeffries, also from The Guardian, called the book "unstoppably self-serving" and "cliche-ridden", saying that its purpose, like that of many other political memoirs, is to rewrite history for the benefit of an author unable to accept responsibility.