Daniel Pryor, who lobbies for governments to shrink the state and cut taxes, feels Liz Truss's brief, disastrous spell as prime minister has killed off his dream of a low-tax, deregulated British economy for at least a generation.

Pryor, who works at the Adam Smith Institute in London, laughs bitterly at the irony that Truss, who said on Thursday she would resign, was forced to abandon her libertarian economic policies by the same free markets she cherishes.

The joke in Britain is that the country is becoming like Italy – but without the weather.  In other words – ungovernable.

Just as Italian politics seem to throw up a new government most weeks, so the UK seems to be churning through Prime Ministers.  Liz Truss announced her resignation on Thursday after a mere six weeks.  The shortest-lived Prime Minister in history, she´d barely unpacked her bags in Downing Street before having to pack them back up again.

Britain has been through the wringer since last month’s mini-budget. Not only was Kwasi Kwarteng’s not-so-mini plan the trigger for a domestic financial crisis and higher mortgage costs for millions, it lit the blue touchpaper for his political downfall and that of his close friend, Liz Truss.

As British Prime Minister Theresa May becomes the first foreign leader to visit President Trump, it is a good time to consider that Margaret Thatcher, much more than Ronald Reagan, is the real model for the Trump presidency.

By breaking the pillars of British society, she opened the way for a politically powerful middle class.

With the passing of Margaret Thatcher weve lost not only one of conservatism's heroes. We've lost one of the greatest figures of modern times a woman who battled incredible odds to become prime minister and then turned her country around after decades of decline.

A polarizing leader she left behind a less equal less civil Britain.

In The Wall Street Journal historian Paul Johnson writes that not since Catherine the Great has there been a woman of such consequence.

ShePAC, a political action committee dedicated to contributing to the campaigns of conservative females, is out with a new video today celebrating Margaret Thatcher's life, womanhood and leadership.