"Liz Truss dedicated a few words to the spiraling cost of living crisis in her victory speech"

'Liz Truss reluctantly proposed the 'energy crisis' - the £3,549 annual cost about to be imposed on desperate households - just a dozen words out of 387 in his four-minute, 43-second speech,” writes Ben Glaze

Liz Truss delivers her victory speech to Conservative members (

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The cost of living crisis is already hurting families and dominated the Conservative leadership race for eight weeks.

But that certainly didn't dominate Liz Truss' victory speech as she was declared the party's new leader and our next prime minister-in-waiting.

She reluctantly offered the 'energy crisis' - the £3,549 annual cost about to be imposed on desperate households - just a dozen out of 387 words in her four-minute speech and 43 seconds, before quickly promising to resolve power supply issues.

Much more prose was lavished paying tribute to Boris Johnson, devastated by his own disgrace, and thanking his family and Conservative Party loyalists for backing his crusade for Number 10.

It's also fair to say that we shouldn't expect a grand speech from our impending prime minister: his mildly tortured boast that Johnson is "admired from Kyiv to Carlisle" left even this audience wondering. 'conservative activists unsure when to clap.

Liz Truss with her husband Hugh O'Leary after she was announced as the new Tory leader (

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Truss' promise that "we'll deliver, we'll deliver, we'll deliver" made her sound less like a stateswoman and more like a new parcel service announcement.

Before dispatching Truss and her defeated rival Rishi Sunak - the candidates had been briefed on the result behind the scenes, moments before it became official - entered the auditorium, the would-be deputies who threw their devolved with the Foreign Secretary began to gather in the auditorium on the sidelines, chatting enthusiastically about their summers - and presumably the jobs they want in his government.

Less than 14 minutes into the ceremony with a speech by party chairman Andrew Stephenson followed by the great Tory Sir Graham Brady announcing the result, it was over.

Outside the QEII Conference Center behind Parliament Square, Truss has now reinforced the convoy of police bikers and support cars containing his assembled protection officers to take him on a blue light escort - a few meters from the rear entrance to Downing Street where, inside No10, convict Johnson...