For the first time in my life I am older than an incumbent prime minister. Liz Truss is 47 and I am 51.
The reason I am so shaken by that four-year gap is that I had long operated under the assumption that those in positions of leadership and power were grown-ups with more knowledge and wisdom than the rest of us. This assumption, which admittedly took something of a battering during the Johnson years, was based on the understanding that those who aspired to govern had more expertise and experience than everyone else.
