Her first big speech may also prove the last by Liz Truss as PM to the Tory faithful.
This Birmingham dirge was painfully banal, uninspiring, tin-eared, divorced from reality and delivered in the tone of a robot about to lose power.
That Conservative MPs openly speculate a leader selected only four weeks ago could be deposed is a bewildered, angry, warring governing party disintegrating before our very eyes.
