Irish Examiner view: Coveney offers Truss a chance

New Prime Minister Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O'Leary outside 10 Downing Street.

The departure of Boris Johnson as British prime minister was certainly in keeping with his tenure.

Whether he was advocating that Britons should buy new kettles to stave off the high costs of energy this winter or describing himself as a ‘booster rocket’, Johnson’s performance as prime minister was often difficult to see in traditional terms, to put it politely, but his three years as leader are now material for historians.