Portrait of the week: Truss in, Johnson out and Nord Stream 1 off

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Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister, said in a speech outside 10 Downing Street: ‘Boris Johnson delivered Brexit, the Covid vaccine and stood up to Russian aggression. History will see him as a hugely consequential prime minister.’ For her part: ‘I am confident that together we can ride out the storm.’ Earlier, on being elected leader of the Conservative party, she had said: ‘I know that we will deliver, we will deliver, we will deliver.’ She had been elected by party members ahead of Rishi Sunak by 81,326 votes to 60,399 (57.4 per cent to 42.6). Turnout was 82.6 per cent. She travelled to Balmoral the next day to kiss hands as the 15th prime minister of the Queen’s reign as soon as Boris Johnson, accompanied by his wife Carrie (who wore a magenta silk Dreamy maxi dress), had resigned his ministry to the Queen there. In his last speech as PM, standing outside No.