ALL PROSPECT COLUMNIST ILLUSTRATIONS BY NICK TAYLOR
The Truss economic crusade hasn’t gone entirely to plan. The special fiscal operation launched by the chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in late September badly spooked markets, which expected the government to at least pretend to care about how it would pay for its vast array of tax cuts, alongside support for energy bills. Hopefully things will have settled by the time this is published but, as I write, the IMF and the Bank of England have intervened to try and stabilise the situation after the pound crashed and the cost of borrowing shot up.