In such a seismic week, our new prime minister only shows how little has changed

It was left to the former Prime Minister, Theresa May, to mention the elephant in the room. Why, she asked during Liz Truss’s first PMQ’s, have all three female prime ministers been Conservative?

It was actually quite refreshing that it wasn’t being mentioned more, as if, yeah, another woman in charge, so what?

For the first time there is a female deputy prime minister, too. And of course, with Nicola Sturgeon, a woman in charge of the Scottish Government.

You’d think this would signify that we’ve come a long way in the battle for equality, but the reality is that of the 650 MPs in the House of Commons, currently only

225 are women. And as Theresa May so pointedly highlighted, the Labour party is yet to have a female leader.

Much has changed, yet nothing has changed.

A lighter note in this big week in politics was the confusion over Liz Truss’s Twitter handle with world leaders mistakenly thinking a person called Liz Trussel was in fact the new PM. She picked it up and ran up with it, replying to the Swedish prime minister’s congratulations with “Looking forward to a visit soon! Get the meatballs ready.”