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If Prime Minister Liz Truss thought she was in for an easy ride, she was sorely mistaken. After spending several days hiding from the economic crisis created by the "mini-budget" delivered by her newly appointed chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, the PM emerged from the shadows to submit herself to a series of interviews with hosts of breakfast shows on regional BBC radio stations across England.
You will, I'm sure, know what happened next.
Truss quickly found out that, unlike her, those asking the questions knew what they were doing. It was brutal.
The way these rounds of interviews work is the person being asked the questions sits in a remote studio and is then connected to a series of different stations. It's a way of allowing an individual to get their message to as many people as possible. Usually, that may be considered a good thing.
On Thursday morning, it was a way for as many people as possible to tear a chunk out of the Prime Minister.
At no stage did it seem as if Truss understood - or indeed cared - about the impact of her Government's actions on voters worried about the impact on their pensions, mortgages and jobs, resulting from a financial plan that saw the Chancellor slash taxes for the rich without explaining - or, seemingly, thinking about - how this policy might be funded.
Instead - usually after an unsettling silence - Truss either told her interviewers she didn't accept the premise of their...