“Who is this?” Channel Nine presenter Tracy Grimshaw asked as Truss and her husband emerged from a black SUV escorted by a motorcade outside Westminster Abbey. “No, they’re hard to spot, maybe minor members of the royal family, members of the… I can’t identify them at the moment,” co-host Peter Overton replied. “We can’t track them all, unfortunately,” Grimshaw said. “They look like they might as well be local officials. it’s hard to see. We’re looking at the back of their head, mostly.” “I think we’re now coming to the sharp end, as they say, of…” Overton said, adding: “I’m told it was Liz Truss, the new prime minister, in the distance she could see getting out of that car.” Truss has only been in charge for a few weeks after winning the Conservative leadership contest following Boris Johnson’s resignation. He was sworn in by the Queen on September 6, just two days before the monarch’s death.
