Installed in Downing Street without a national mandate by a tiny Conservative sect, Liz Truss posturing as a Boris Johnson continuity Prime Minister without the jokes is dispiriting.
The country faces enormous challenges, chief among them those scorching energy bills in a seismic cost of living crisis, so barely touching the subject in a lacklustre speech to the Tory faithful was ominous.
Where are our votes in a general election when she was put into No10 by only 0.12% of the population who are in the Conservative Party and backed her?
