LIZ Truss, in an interview during the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg yesterday, made the bombshell announcement that “we are not living in a perfect world, we are living in a very difficult world”.

She was speaking as the Conservative Party conference kicked off in Birmingham, an event which is predicted to be like the bloodiest battle scenes from Game of Thrones.

After spending a week in hiding, the Prime Minister had no option but to finally emerge from her bunker to try and explain precisely how tanking the economy will help “level up” the UK. She did so in the manner of a startled rabbit caught in the headlights of a heavy goods vehicle.

Never have awkward silences conveyed so much meaning. Each pause served as a reminder that, during a time of national crisis, we are being led by somebody utterly out of her depth. Having failed to address the central question of why her government punched itself in the face, she started talking about pies. It’s a step up from pork imports at least.

Truss revealed that her economic strategy is based on growing the pie. “We need a bigger pie,” she said. A statement so profound that I think you’ll agree it was worth waiting a week for.

The idea is that if we grow the pie then more people can have a slice of the pie. Under her plans, bankers and millionaires are served hefty wedges of the pie and asked if they would like custard on the side while ordinary workers are free to help themselves to any crumbs that fall from linen napkins on to the floor.

In a contender for understatement of the year, Truss admitted that the mini-Budget wasn’t exactly a roaring success. But she attributed this not to its content, but the delivery.

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She claims taking the UK to the brink of financial collapse was merely a result of shortcomings in the communications strategy. I’m sure a TED talk on why it’s right to borrow money to fund tax cuts for millionaires would have alleviated market concerns.

But fear not, weary citizens! For Truss has a plan! Unfortunately, she says she can’t set out what that plan is or reveal any details of it whatsoever. But it’s definitely real and it’s definitely coming, much like my plan to get a six-pack by Christmas.

Maybe we should at least give Truss some credit for showing her face. Most people cope with abject humiliation by hiding under the duvet and turning off their phone. But there she was, on the telly, not answering questions. What a hero.

Conservative Party conference isn’t usually blockbuster viewing. This one might just buck the trend.

The economy is not the only thing Truss has managed to tank: she’s also turned her considerable wrecking abilities towards her party’s own fortunes.

Poll after poll shows the Tories heading for electoral oblivion. Apparently letters of no confidence in the Prime Minister have already been sent and she is facing a rebellion on the mini-Budget vote.

Michael Gove, now free from the constraints of ministerial office, has resumed his role of polite assassin. He was on hand to comment on Truss’s disastrous interview yesterday and he didn’t mince his words. He said he was “profoundly concerned” by the measures set out in the mini-Budget and that the 45p rate cut displayed “the wrong priorities”.

When he was asked if he would vote against it, Gove said: “I don’t believe it is right’’ which in politician speak counts as a resounding yes.

This is only a taster of the drama to come. Conservative Party chairman Jake Berry is talking tough and says any Tory MP who votes against the mini-Budget will lose the whip. If Truss presses ahead with her fiscal plans and ignores the concerns of not only the markets and the public, but also her own backbenchers, there will be a fair few Tory MPs who face that fate.

If that happens, the polls showing Conservative seat predictions might come to pass long before the next election.

During the months of instability under Boris Johnson, you got the sense he was just trying to get through to the next day. Truss seems to be fighting to survive hour by hour.

The Tories know they’re on the way out. Conference will be an opportunity for them to air their grievances, plot against the leadership and update their LinkedIn profiles.

We can see how this will eventually play out, but we shouldn’t underestimate the Prime Minister’s ability to trip over her own feet all the way there.

This is a government in freefall, lurching from one disaster to the next. When Truss gives her big speech to party members, it will be truly make or break.

Her best option is to say that she was drunk during the mini-Budget discussions and that she’s scrapping the whole thing. A U-turn would be humiliating but it is necessary.

If the lady is not for turning, then she’ll be setting herself up for an almighty fight with her MPs. One that she will undoubtedly lose, one way or another.