On Thursday, October 20 2022, Liz Truss became Britain shortest-serving prime minister in history. After 45 days in office Truss resigned under a cloud of confusion, shame, and fury from both MPs in her party and the majority of the people of Britain whose ire at her poor governance choices saw her have only a 10% favourability rating among citizens in the last week of her brief stint as prime minister. British politicians know to take seriously the idea of public representation.

Without a mandate from the people shown through support and trust, parties and individual representatives alike understand their political power is constrained by the people’s power to hire and fire them...