Will Rishi Sunak’s big tent approach to cabinet work?

Truss filled her cabinet with friends. Johnson said he wanted tired old lions, so I can be king lion!'. The new PM takes a different tack

When Liz Truss entered Number 10, she had very limited political capital. She had been the first choice of fewer than 50 MPs, had exiled many big beasts to the backbenches and had inherited a parliamentary party with grave doubts about her abilities and her project.

Rishi Sunak has a far healthier inheritance. Not only is the economic picture beginning to improve with lower gas prices and a stabilising pound, but he has broad goodwill from all but the most hardcore wings of his party.