Liz Truss policy blitz on hold as Queen’s death poses new test

Liz Truss reads a statement outside 10 Downing Street after the announcement of the Queen’s death. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

As she took to her feet in the Commons to announce her £150bn package to freeze energy bills, Liz Truss will have been under the impression that it was a moment likely to define her premiership.

If the announcement landed well, sceptical Conservative MPs had suggested, it would buy her time to get on with the business of governing. If not, her time at No 10 would be over before it had begun.