At least Liz Truss’s dull delivery skills will make oncoming crises seem less dramatic | Marina Hyde

A new PM with the support of less than half her MPs needs to sort out a country facing calamity. What could go wrong?

Well, there it is. The UK's third prime minister in just over three years is Liz Truss, the troubling result of a lab accident in which a community centre asset stripper was crossbred with a Live-Laugh-Love decal.

Her predecessor, Boris Johnson, left Downing Street this morning after an arrogant, lie-heavy speech, in which he displayed his character development after three years in office - precisely zero. None of his children was there (it's actually quite a small street). He remains a short king over the water for any number of Conservatives who somehow still yearn to be shackled to a wildly underachieving narcissist who openly despises them. There's being psychologically beaten, and then there's ... that.