This must be the most humbling of humble moments for Liz Truss.
Six weeks after becoming prime minister she is being forced to sit in silence as a man who backed her rival in the leadership campaign rips apart her whole plan for the country and turns it into something resembling Rishi Sunak’s prospectus for the government.
Next to the chancellor, two seats away Penny Mordaunt – the woman Ms Truss beat into the Tory leadership runoff.
She has just been fielding questions in the prime minister’s place, at one point assuring MPs that the prime minister was not hiding “under a desk.”
It’s hard to see how Liz Truss comes back from this politically with her vision for the country in tatters and one-time rivals now holding the power in government.
The problem for the prime minister is this isn’t just humbling, it’s humiliating.
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Source: Rob Powell, Sky News