'A doom is imminent': Bury voters unconvinced of Liz Truss as PM

In the streets of Britain's most marginal constituency of Westminster, Tuesday's political mood largely reflected the weather: dark, gray and subject to the occasional raging downpour.

As he was officially invited to be the country's next Prime Minister at Balmoral , anger has swept through residents of Bury North - who voted Conservative by just 105 votes in 2019 - over the growing cost of living crisis.

Electricity bill stories who are tripling, of parents who cannot afford school uniforms, of extended families having to pool their resources, of business owners fearful of closuretu re and students concerned about their dwindling future have all come here to this Greater Manchester city.

And, fittingly, few people appear ed to believe the new Prime Minister was the right person for dealing with such a monumental emergency.

"I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her," said Jeannette Roberts, a retired caregiver sitting outside The Caterer of Katsouri. "Everything she said [this summer] was designed to appeal to the people she was talking to. Well, that's not my style. I think it should be said as it is. And I like leaders who do that too."

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L he 72-year-old - admittedly a longtime Labor voter - was worried about both his future and that of his eight great-grandchildren. In the short term, she and her husband had already considered selling their bungalow this winter so they could move into rental accommodation and set aside the money from the sale for energy bills. Eventually, she feared that her offspring would be condemned to live in an "ungovernable" country.

"We seem to go from one crisis to another since...