Soon after being elected Tory leader, Iain Duncan Smith summed up a test that he was soon to fail. ‘At the moment, I am a clean slate,’ he said. ‘It’s the next four months that count. If the wrong colours are applied to my slate, they will be there for ever.

Can Truss repair the damage of her first four weeks?

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