Liz Truss somehow makes the country's bankruptcy boring in PMQs

After three years of Boris Johnson nothing short of waking up late it looked like she had been dragged back through an electric fence, accidentally declaring a nuclear war and insulting a world leader in Latin had to be considered a triumph of statesmanship

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After three years of Boris Johnson, the first questions to prime ministers of the Liz Truss era were still likely to be quite boring.

All that isn't the fact that she stays up late, looks like she's been dragged back through an electric fence, accidentally declares nuclear war, and insults a world leader in Latin would be considered a triumph of statesmanship.

But despite the lowest expectations, the most surprising thing about the new Prime Minister facing the barking crowd for the first time was how unenthusiastic she seemed to be about the whole thing .

The only thing that seemed to make his heart beat during the 40-minute session was the prospect of bankrupting the country.

Keir Starmer had a job in the PMQs: differentiating his plan to solve the energy crisis from the one Mrs. Truss would have to take away from him tomorrow.

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The main difference being that the Labor Party defined how it would be paid - with a tax on energy producers.

Truss, on the other hand, seems fine with blowing a £100 billion hole in the nation's finances, as long as she doesn't have to ask the fatcats to step in.

Otherwise, she answered every question with a relatively meaningless salad of words - promising to "do everything we can" and take "immediate action" followed by various political buzzwords.

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But given that the government has literally done nothing for two months, the promise of urgent intervention rang a little hollow.

It's tempting to think that audiences would like to be a bit bored after so long with an exhausting clown in charge.

The Labor leader has long been accused of lacking the energy and flair to be prime minister.

But given Liz Truss' first outing at the dispatch box, it's not a line of attack the Tories will be able to use again.