The cost-of-living crisis is already inflicting misery on families and dominated the eight-week Tory leadership contest.
But it certainly didn’t dominate Liz Truss’ victory speech as she was declared the new party chief and our next Prime Minister-in-waiting.
She grudgingly offered the “energy crisis” - the £3,549 annual cost about to be slapped on desperate households - just a dozen words out of 387 during her four minute, 43-second speech, before quickly promising to address power supply issues.