Terry Prone: Our Government makes the Conservatives look like amateurs

British Prime Minister Liz Truss. If she’d picked the right advisors in the first place, they’d have drilled into what we’ll laughingly call her thinking.

You have to hand it to Boris. In fairness, he pulled off one of the most difficult tricks in the book. The advice has always been that if you want to be remembered, in politics, you need to succeed a fool and be followed by a fool. It may not be fair to describe Theresa May as a fool, but nobody will fight with the designation as applied to Liz Truss.

Boris Johnson is a wide boy, and that’s not commenting on his shape. He created his own reality on a daily basis, lying like a rug whenever the fancy took him. He could bluster in a way that a bored electorate found briefly entertaining. Liz Truss, on the other hand, isn’t entertaining, although she is outstanding: Innovative in her incompetence, and unprecedented in her capacity to create chaos.