Good morning, and a big thank you to the indefatigable members of the Conservative party, who have completed their solemn biannual duty of selecting a new prime minister on behalf of the country while so many others laze about checking the gas meter.
The latest fresh face in Downing Street is one Liz Truss, the former Liberal Democrat, former Remainer, former CND campaigner and former opponent of government handouts who will begin her rotation at the helm of a Conservative pro-Brexit administration by giving her nuclear weapon instructions and setting out a multi-billion pound plan to help with energy bills. “I know that our beliefs resonate with the British people,” she said yesterday. Some of them must.