With the oratory flair of a Dalek, Liz Truss promised in her victory speech on Monday: “We will deliver, we will deliver, we will deliver.”
As she flew to Balmoral yesterday to be appointed our 56th Prime Minister, No52 on the list, Gordon Brown, was in a warehouse on a delivery mission of his own. Don’t panic, he’s not on his uppers - he was promoting a charitable partnership with Amazon, the Co-op, Scotmid and local businesses to provide essentials to more than 50,000 families in need by the end of this year.
Amazon has provided staff pro bono to assist in the scheme. Harshly critical as I have been of Brown, unpopular a PM as he was, his days at the helm were positively halcyon compared with what is about to come.