If its in the Torygraph, it must be true

The Torygraph reported late last night:

NEW Liz Truss prepares for showdown with Aussie trade minister in London this week.

Her allies says trade deal progress is “glacially slow” under Dan Tehan.

“He is inexperienced compared to Liz. He needs to show that he can play at this level,” they add

Allies of Truss say she plans to sit Aussie trade minister Tehan “in the Locarno Room [in Foreign Office] in an uncomfortable chair, so he has to deal with her directly for 9 hours”.

They add “Australia need to show us the colour of their money” and match “words with action”.

Australia is accused of being “slow to move on key UK asks”, including on services, investment & biz visas – particularly in law & management consultancy.

Australia must make “some serious movement on their side” to unblock negotiations, say Truss allies.

Here's the thing: trade deals take time, unless you agree to the opposite side's red lines and abandon your own. And trade deals take time. Years, sometimes decades, as details are hammered out, sometimes with no progress for years.

The deals she has "ngotiated" so far just carry over what the UK had under the deals we had as an EU member state, which is good. The only one which is different is the one with Japan, which is worse, and the UK Government won't publish the details of to Parliament for scrutiny.

By this point this last point cannot be a surprise.

I also saw a right wing blog today that described Liz Truss as the Brexit Superwoman.

Quite.