Joyce Fegan: A disconnect between the power and the people

"Back home it looks like the empire next door is falling to pieces but walk its streets and it's business as usual"

A selection of British national newspapers showing the reaction the resignation of Liz Truss. Picture:: AP Photo/David Cliff

Bar the passing of a queen with a near-century long reign, or the odd wedding, there’s rarely much action outside Buckingham Palace.

But not on Thursday. As a handful of tourists took underwhelming snaps in a drizzly, overcast city and as a flat-capped Londoner led a guide of American tourists, the gates were opening and closing, a cavalcade of police cars formed and men in tailored suits, not accustomed to navigating rain, commuted by foot from the palace, across Green Park and into nearby buildings, some government offices.