Liz Truss apologises for the chaos. What next?

Finally, we hear from the Prime Minister. Liz Truss has given an interview to the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason. It comes at the end of a day in which she was accused of ‘hiding under a desk’ and emerged in the Commons only for a silent half an hour of blinking occasionally. She apologised, saying: ‘Firstly I want to accept responsibility and say sorry, for the mistakes that have been made.’

The Prime Minister has left others to argue that the government is still functioning. What she hasn’t done, until now, is offer any argument about why she should remain in office when Jeremy Hunt is effectively in power. That argument now seems to be that she is still focused on her priorities, including energy supplies and new roads. She then insisted that she still believed in ‘a low tax, high growth economy’, but because of the ‘very difficult circumstances at the moment’, things had to change.