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Liz Truss has faced brutal ridicule on social media following her announcement of a new book about her catastrophic mini-budget. The former Prime Minister shared a link on X to pre-order her publication ‘Bank Job’, but the reaction proved far from favourable.

The cover image, depicting Truss seated at a desk in the style of crime thriller Reservoir Dogs and flanked by figures thought to include former Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair, and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, quickly became fodder for online editing.

Social media users wasted no time resurrecting the legendary lettuce that outlived Truss’s tenure at Number 10. One person retitled the volume ‘Lettuce Job’, adding the tagline ‘how to outlast a lettuce’. Another user modified the title to ‘w**k job’.

Truss’s premiership represents the briefest in British history, with even the Daily Star’s lettuce enduring longer than her 45-day spell in Downing Street. Her leadership collapsed after a contentious “mini-budget” featuring unfunded tax reductions proposed by her chancellor triggered financial market chaos, a plunge in sterling, extensive political backlash, and the collapse of party backing.

The “short book on how the Bank of England broke the bond market and brought down the government” following Truss’s mini-Budget will be published alongside the first Budget under Andy Burnham. Despite the economic turmoil, Truss’s new publication presents a contrasting account of her political demise, expanding upon her claim that the “establishment” and Bank of England bore responsibility for the crisis.

The book reportedly “lift the lid on what really happened around the Mini-Budget in 2022, challenging the establishment narrative and examining in particular the role of the unaccountable Bank of England”. Politicians have already criticised the release, with her former trade policy minister Conor Burns ridiculing the publication.

He wrote on X: “She is now an international embarrassment with zero self awareness.” Another X user amended the book cover with the title “Whack Job”, and shared the image with the caption: “A short book on how Liz Truss broke the bond market and a lettuce brought down the government.”

Others suggested that the book would soon be relegated to ‘Poundland shelves’.