


Where Boris had plainly accommodated these deep pockets, Truss and her ‘ideological soulmate’, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, appear utterly beholden, seemingly allowing special interests an inside track at the expense of the country they are entrusted to protect.

Red flags are now flying the breadth of Downing Street to indicate an immediate capture of the new Conservative clique in charge by a cabal of shadowy corporate catspaws and self-interested currency speculators, bent on framing policy to cut taxes, turn a fast buck and get the regulators off their backs. Labour’s call for the Financial Conduct Authority to be brought in to investigate the circumstances surrounding Britain’s calamitous so-called ‘mini-budget’ becomes more justified by the hour.
