Media

Britain “looks increasingly like an isolated Atlantic island state” instead of an international player, the Washington Post note.

The Mirror made a pointed call for a general election, while the Daily Star features a lettuce that managed to outlast the outgoing PM.

"As openings to major news bulletins go, this takes the biscuit, the cake and the whole bloody patisserie", Owen Williams said.

A day of ‘chaos’ is sprawled across the nation’s papers, with The Sun dubbing the government "broken" and Mail turning on Truss too.

‘The great office of Prime Minister was yesterday reduced to an unedifying game of ghost-hunting,’ The Sun writes in an editorial.

"Downbeat predictions on the economic consequences of leaving the EU have turned out to be overwhelmingly correct", Jeremy Warner said.

The Daily Mail has changed its tune, while the Star has a typically brilliant front-page.

“What I really wanted to say (was) ‘f*** you, you bastard’, but you can’t say that.”

Power cuts could be "just the ticket to shake some of today’s youngsters out of that sublime sense of entitlement and self-righteousness".