It’s been seven long weeks since the Prime Minister resigned, saddling Britain with a zombie government. Apart from a last-minute trip to Kyiv, Boris Johnson has largely been serving his notice in the Med, while the Tory leadership contenders fish lazily in the shallow waters of their voting pool.
Liz Truss, now almost certainly our next prime minister, has given us more detail about hitting the nuclear button than her plans to stop Britain freezing and starving.
An absentee government presiding over a summer of no content.