The Liz Truss disaster show

The Truss Disaster Show has even left a number of conservatives worried, even panicked. According to Paul Goodman, editor of Conservative Home, she has been leftwith no good options. Sticking to her mini-Budget measures would guarantee defeat in the Commons, thereby eroding her authority. Abandoning them would have much the same effect.

The Spectator has also been running a number of querying meditations and the decline and fall of the new PM. "There's something not entirely grown up about the Prime Minister," Lloyd Evans suggests. "She has a permanent air of naïve euphoria – like a bouncy new teacher taking the class on a jolly exciting trip."

Barely into her prime ministership, Truss has laid the basis for its demise. When she and her party return to Westminster, the sense of vultures circling will be palpable. While recent years tell us that polls are nonsensical excursions of fancy, rarely to be trusted, it is hard to sense that the current figures are off. Should they remain at their current levels, a massacre at the ballot box is in the making.