Tax-cut stunts can’t cover up the disaster that is Brexit | William Keegan

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak feel bound to talk lower spending to party members, but the former chancellor at least must see the folly of losing billions off our GDP

They are trying to hide the failure of Brexit behind policy stunts." This observation about the fiasco of the Conservative party's leadership contest came from an economist friend and neatly sums it up.

Liz Truss, who voted Remain but is now an ardent Brexiter, cannot admit to herself that she was right first time, and that the trade deals she goes on about that are supposed to have made up for our crass departure from the European Union do not amount to a hill of beans.