Just as we find we were even more attached to Queen Elizabeth than we realised, so we find ourselves even more loyal to her successor than we expected.
The former Prime Minister pays a warm and amusing tribute to the monarch she served.
For the first time since 1979, we saw a Tory PM enter office who believes in an economic doctrine and is not afraid to preach it.
But there are truths in life – for example, that a stich in time saves nine, beggars can’t be choosers…and that you can’t spend more than your earn. His premiership ends with record spending and taxes.
It will be trickier than promising the earth, but the new prime minister must fight the next election on a credible platform.
If Truss is set on rewriting the Integrated Review, she will need bandwidth at the top of govenment to do so effectively, given the awesome scale of the economic challenges facing her.
The author compares politics to a game of snakes and ladders, but demonstrates that it is actually far harder than that.
Unlike his predecessor, the Prime Minister is not spending his final weeks in office rushing out announcements to give future historians something nice to say.
Some MPs continued to boo him, which was as it should be. Johnson delights the pit by infuriating the prigs.
Flirting with repealing the ban tripped up both Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt. Will any of today’s wannabes make the same mistake?
Three Conservative backbenchers, and then most damagingly the recently resigned Health Secretary, told the Prime Minister it was time to go.
The Party’s internationalist-minded Left talks the rebellious talk, but is less ready to walk the walk.
The Transport Secretary, an early backer of Johnson for the leadership, has become one of the Government’s most trusted media performers
Last week’s confidence vote leaves the Government right about the Protocol’s operability but less capable of acting to improve it.
Liz Truss, and to a lesser extent Rishi Sunak, have been reticent in making a case for the achievements of the period. Is that because there are so few?