Why you can trust Truss’s experience...

SWAS that Rishi sunak’s swansong on the Laura Kuenssberg show on BBC TV yesterday? The Labour MP Jess Phillips thinks so: ‘There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that he will stand down and head back on a fancy plane to California before the rest of the country can say blackout.’

HOULD liz Truss be confirmed as PM today, she will be the most experienced incoming occupant of No 10 since John Major in 1990.

Truss’s impressive record of holding five Cabinet posts over eight years bears comparison with Major, who was Foreign Secretary, Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Chancellor before replacing Mrs Thatcher.

In comparison, Theresa May (home Secretary for six years) and Gordon Brown (Chancellor for ten) held just one Cabinet post apiece before they took the reins of power, as did Boris Johnson, who was Foreign Secretary for two years. Meanwhile, Tony Blair and david Cameron were never government ministers before taking the top job.

But Truss shouldn’t rest on her laurels in her new role — and no one understands this better than Sir Anthony Seldon, who has written biographies of seven PMs.

he says: ‘Nothing in life prepares incomers for No 10 . . . No one, not even Truss, knows how she will perform in office. All we know is that the inheritance is bloody.’

Writing in the New Statesman, Seldon says she should learn from Boris, who was fatally damaged by his personal failings.

‘Truss needs to rebuild trust . . . She has shown a past willingness to admit errors, but once in No 10, the advice will be never to apologise. She will be a lesser Prime Minister if she heeds that advice.’