He, more than anyone else, more even than herself, is culpable for the catastrophe of the Truss premiership
Contemplating a regime of churning chaos presiding over extreme financial volatility, some market analysts no longer treat Britain as a G7 country and bracket us with emerging markets. This is unfair. There are many developing countries with much more stable governments and predictable policy programmes than ours. Three prime ministers in three months. Four chancellors in four months. Three home secretaries in less than two months. It is anarchy in the UK with the punk Tories.
Liz Truss will not just go down as the briefest prime minister in our history. She will also be recorded as one of the most calamitous. Many previous occupants of the office have had four or more years at Number 10 without doing the damage she inflicted in 44 days. Tories will now try to turn this unique entry in the book of atrocious political records into a kind of alibi for the rest of them.
