Even her harshest critics would admit her first two weeks in the job had been tough.
Day one - Liz Truss becomes Conservative leader, effectively toppling Boris Johnson less than three years after he won the Tories’ biggest majority since 1987.
Day two - she flies to Balmoral Castle for an audience with the Queen where the monarch, in what turned out to be her last duty in life, asks Ms Truss to form a government and become her 15th PM.