Liz Truss spoke briefly to the nation today as she left Downing Street following a disastrous and chaotic six weeks in the job.
Ms Truss has been forced out of power in humiliation after her extreme economic plans caused economic turmoil around the country. She is now the shortest serving Prime Minister in British history.
Speaking to a small group of gathered journalists, she said: "From my time as Prime Minister I'm more convinced than ever that we need to be bold and confront the challenges we face. We simply cannot afford to be a low-growth country where the Government takes up an increasing share of our national wealth and where there are huge divides between different parts of our country.
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"We need to take advantage of our Brexit freedoms to do things differently." She cited one of these benefits as "lower taxes, so people keep more of the money they earn", before wishing Mr Sunak "every success, for the good of our country".
In a speech lasting three minutes and seven seconds, Ms Truss quoted Roman philosopher Seneca to say: "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
This was a fairly bizarre quote to be chosen by a Prime Minister whose experimental and hugely controversial economic plans have crashed the country's economy, sent mortgage rates spiralling and forced her from office in a period of under two months. The irony being that the things she dared to do made all of our lives more difficult.
Ultimately, as Ms Truss half-heartedly attempted to paper over the cracks of her embarrassing premiership, there was one key word that was missing - sorry.
There was no sorry for the economic turmoil she and her Chancellor have wrought upon the country, no sorry for the spiralling mortgage rates that families who are already battling a cost of living crisis will now face. No sorry for the embarrassment she has caused to the country on an international stage.
She added: "We continue to battle through a storm but I believe in Britain, I believe in the British people and I know that brighter days lie ahead." We will have to hope this is the case after her time in office plunged Britain into one of its darkest periods of recent times.
Ms Truss wished her successor - Rishi Sunak - well. He was the man beaten by her in a leadership contest that finished in early September. In a truly remarkable and frankly bizarre turn of events, he will now succeed her today.
And with that she was done. A speech nearly as brief as her time in office, but with no recognition of the damage she has done.
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