Keir Starmer asks his UQ. He starts by just asking “the prime minister” to make a statement on the replacement of the chancellor.
Penny Mordaunt, the leader of the Commons, starts by saying Liz Truss is “detained on urgent business” and that MPs will have to make do with her
Starmer thanks Mordaunt for replying. He says under this government everyone gets to be prime minister for 15 minutes.
Starmer asks why Truss is not here herself. She is “scared of her own shadow”, he says. “The lady’s not for turning – up.”
Mordaunt starts by saying she does not think Starmer will get his 15 minutes as prime minister.
She pays tribute to the “courage” shown by Liz Truss in changing course.
The decision taken by our prime minister would have been a very tough one, politically and personally. Yet she has taken it, and she has done so because it is manifestly in the national interest.
She did not hesitate to do so because her focus is on the wellbeing of every one of our citizens.
It was the right thing to do and, whether you agree with this or not, it took courage to do it.
She says Starmer did not need courage to table today’s UQ. And she attacks Starmer for opposing Brexit.
Blimey, Mordaunt’s another lickspittle of Truss, regurgitating the same old delusions … 
Alberto Costa (Con) tells Mordaunt that she is showing in this UQ what an “enormous asset” she is to the goverment. He says any Tory would do better than the socialists or separatists opposite.
Mordaunt agrees. She says Larry the cat would give the opposition a run for her money.
Hopefully, after PM concludes her “audition” for PM, we’ll get to the UQ … 
Labour’s Stella Creasy says that the PM’s job is to make difficult decisions - yet she is “cowering under a desk waiting for it all to go away”.
Mordaunt says “the PM is not under a desk” - then is interrupted by jeering. She says can assure the House that the prime minister is not here for a very good reason.
Maybe there is no question - it was just an excuse to get a (non-)response from LT … 
SNP MP David Linden asks whether the former chancellor will be rejecting his ministerial severance payment.
Sky’s Sam Coates says Liz Truss is in parliament this afternoon. (Skulking in the tea-room?)
Mordaunt says, again, there is a “genuine reason” why Truss is not here. She says she hopes Truss will be in the chamber later.
Mordaunt says there will be many opportunities to hear from the prime minister, “some in the next 24 hours”.
The PM is detained on urgent business yet she is due in the Commons shortly to flank the chancellor … 
Ayup … she’s 'ere … 
IMO, LT looked pale and sedated … and she’s dumped the tight-fitting dress for business-like jacket and trousers …
