Every former prime minister says taking PMQs is the most scary ordeal of the week, and even after 10 years in post, people such as Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair regarded it as one of the ultimate challenges of the job – an encounter when a few wrong words could spell disaster.
For any new prime minister, the first question is: are they up to it? And Liz Truss clearly is. She looked like a prime minister, she performed reasonably well, and she even managed a decent joke (on Labour leaders and north London). It was not a triumph, but it was not a catastrophe either, and on day one that is a bonus.
