Her first big speech may also prove the last by Liz Truss as PM to the Tory faithful.
This Birmingham dirge was painfully banal, uninspiring, tin-eared, divorced from reality and delivered in the tone of a robot about to lose power.
That Conservative MPs openly speculate a leader selected only four weeks ago could be deposed is a bewildered, angry, warring governing party disintegrating before our very eyes.
The “Labour for Liz” campaign will be thrilled when Truss is the gift that keeps on giving.
In more than 30 years stretching back to the fag end of the Thatcher era, I've never been to a worse Conservative conference.
Seismic rows over tax bungs for the rich and living standards cuts for workers are a Tory nervous breakdown.

And giving the last say to an incompetent, wrong-headed leader illustrated why most of them know they're staggering to electoral defeat.
The best that can be said is she didn't suffer a Theresa May coughing fit and putting no words on the backdrop avoided letters falling down.
The P45 moment this year was a couple of Greenpeace protesters, kicking them out a rare moment of Tory unity.
Let's praise the bright spark who selected M People's “Movin' on Up” fanfare for Truss to prance onto the stage.
The line “Move right out of here. baby, go on pack your bags” is how many voters, including a growing number of Conservative MPs, feel about blunder Truss.
Keir Starmer and Labour poll leads of up to 31% Labour signify an irreversible shift in the national mood.
Those “hard choices” Truss talks about will be her choices that are hard for other folk.
People are sick of them and their choice would be a General Election to dump the Cons.
Truss inventing an anti-growth coalition to attack is fantasy politics.
The rest of the country knows it's wrong, wrong, wrong.