Finally the Truss v Sunak psychodrama comes to end – for now at least

All mediocre things have to come to an end and the six weeks of Conservative leadership hustings finally limped to a close in London. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Finally. This is the end, beautiful friend. The end. Well, let’s hope so. For now at least.

In the absence of the government doing any actual governing, we’ve been forced to endure the tedium of a drawn out Tory leadership contest. A niche psychodrama for the 160,000 people allowed to vote. One with very little actual drama as we’ve all known who was going to win from the moment MPs reduced the candidates down to the final two.