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‘Hunt’s running the show’: the day power drained away from Liz Truss

As Truss’s decline from shiny new prime minister continues, the last 24 hours have underlined just how weak she is

When it was announced that Penny Mordaunt had offered to stand in for Liz Truss in response to an urgent Commons question over the economic crisis on Monday, some Conservative MPs thought it was a joke.

“Why is she asking one of her biggest rivals for the job to take her place? She’ll totally show her up,” one said. It was hard to see the cabinet minister’s performance on Monday afternoon as anything other than an audition for the top job.

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