Britain is now on a war footing and we must pray that with Liz Truss, cometh the hour, cometh the woman
CABINET ministers with golf umbrellas hokey-cokeyed in and out of No10 as torrential rain threatened their new leader’s Downing Street arrival.
But new PM Liz Truss was unfazed by this blast of autumn weather.
She told TV cameras: “As strong as the storm may be, I know the British people are stronger.
“I am confident that together we can ride out the storm and become the modern, brilliant Britain I know we can be.”
Superstitious observers will point to the contrast with rocket booster BoJo’s coded farewell in dazzling sunshine hours earlier.
This was certainly not goodbye.
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It was the clearest signal so far that Boris will indeed be back — like his hero, Cincinnatus, who was twice called out of retirement to save the Roman Empire.
His future — and ours — depends on his successor.
And so far, so good.
Global money men gave early support to Truss’s £170billion splurge to save the economy.
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The pound stopped sliding and rose against the US dollar.
Yet it could so easily have gone the other way, triggering a sterling crisis as faith in the UK evaporated.
We should be under no illusions. This is a huge gamble. And nobody can be certain it will work.
Economists on all sides lined up to accuse Truss of beggaring tomorrow’s children to prop up well-off Baby Boomers who have enjoyed history’s longest run of prosperity.
Nobody can claim to have all the answers — especially the clueless Labour opposition.
Keir Starmer should be ashamed at this moment of potentially catastrophic turmoil to be a mere 15 points ahead of an untested Tory PM.
Liz Truss will flesh out her economic blueprint this week and unveil the Cabinet team which will work 24/7 to deliver.
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Britain is now on a war footing. There is no more time for Tory sniping or score settling.
We must pray now that cometh the hour, cometh the woman.