Liz Truss was sat at Jeremy Hunt’s side like a mourner at her own funeral – she’s a national embarrassment

FOR all the credibility Liz Truss now commands, the Tories might as well field a cardboard cut-out at Prime Minister’s Questions tomorrow.

Everything Truss stood for four weeks ago is blown away — her tax-cutting agenda, her war on the anti-growth alliance, even her repeated vow to slash fuel bills for two full years.

Pop-up Chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday scrapped the lot — with Liz at his side, eyes downcast, like a mourner at her own funeral.

If her mayfly shelf life as PM is a personal tragedy, her unapologetic presence in Downing Street is a national embarrassment.

Yet for all her glaring inadequacies, it is not Liz Truss alone who is to blame for making UK plc a global laughing stock.

It is the 180,000 grass roots Conservative party members who chose her following a scandalously extended leadership contest.

It is the 113 Tory MPs who, knowing her limitations as the face and voice of a government risking election meltdown, went ahead and put her on the shortlist of two.

And it is those implacable BoJo loyalists who would rather blow up their own Conservative regime than see Rishi Sunak take the place of their fallen hero.

The losers are the 14 million punters who backed Brexit and handed Boris an 80-seat landslide.

Warring Tories richly deserve whatever punishment lies ahead.

But what have those hapless voters done to deserve the most leftwing, leaden-footed Labour-led government in UK political history?