After three years of Boris Johnson, the first Prime Ministers’ Questions of the Liz Truss era was always likely to be fairly boring.
Anything short of her rocking up late, looking like she’d been dragged backwards through an electric fence, accidentally declaring nuclear war and insulting a world leader in Latin would be seen as a triumph of statesmanship.
But despite the rock bottom expectations, the most surprising thing about the new PM facing up to the baying mob for the first time was how entirely unenthused she seemed about the whole affair.
The sole thing that seemed to get her heart rate up during the 40 minute session was the prospect of bankrupting the country.
Keir Starmer had one job at PMQs - to differentiate his plan to fix the energy crisis with the one Ms Truss is expected to nick from him tomorrow.
The main difference being that Labour has set out how it would be paid for - with a tax on energy producers.
Truss on the other hand seems fine with blowing a £100 billion hole in the nation’s finances, as long as she doesn’t have to ask fatcats to chip in.
Otherwise, she answered each question with a relatively meaningless word salad - promising to “do all we can” and take “immediate action” followed by various policy buzzwords.
But given the Government has done literally nothing for two months, the promise of urgent intervention rang a little hollow.
It’s tempting to think the public would relish a bit of boring after so long with an exhausting clown in charge.
Labour’s leader has long been accused of lacking the energy and flair to be Prime Minister.
But given Liz Truss’ first outing at the despatch box, that’s not an attack line the Tories will be able to use ever again.
