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I've got my thesaurus open and I'm looking for alternatives to extraordinary and I'm struggling.

The government's policy of three weeks ago is now just embers floating in the air after

the new chancellor set everything alight and this afternoon in the Commons, there was an emergency question

to the Prime Minister, except she didn't show up, and it was left to the leader of the House

to hold the fort. Mr Speaker, with apologies to the leader of the opposition

and the house

the PM is detained on urgent business

where is the prime minister

hiding away

dodging questions scared of our own shadow

the lady's not for turning up

so Penny Morden ended up of her own shadow. The lady's not for turning up.

So Penny Morden ended up spending about an hour telling MPs that Listrust would very much like to have been there for that hour. But unfortunately, as a result of urgent business, urgent business that she would like to be able to tell everyone what it was, but she didn't have permission to quite say what it was. She couldn't be there. Only,

about, as I say, an hour later, for Liz Trust to actually turn up, whatever urgent business

has been resolved, to flank Jeremy Hunt's during his statement. You'd almost think that Liz Truss

didn't want to answer an emergency question. I know, I know,

call me cynical, call me an old sceptic, but why on earth wouldn't she turn up? Well, one pretty good

reason. There are no good answers for her today on why, what she stood on the leadership

for, what she announced would be the

answer to Britain's economic ills, has been shredded. Well, Penny Morden did a very game job

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