Sunak, Truss and the Bank of England are lying to you – the UK economy is weak and rigged | Aditya Chakrabortty

Westminster is perpetrating the same scam as the rate-setters - bluffing that they can get the old economic machinery working like before

Perhaps you have been hoping that the age of lies is over. After all, Boris Johnson will soon be swept out of No 10 and whoever replaces him cannot be half as mendacious - can they? Liz Truss may love her pork markets but she can't be as keen on telling pork pies. Well, I bring bad news. If lying is making a statement one knows to be false, then Britain is wading waist-deep into an era of systemic deceit.

I don't just mean the permanently malfunctioning Truss, who this week complained she was wilfully misrepresented" by, um, her very own press release. No, the fabrications come from across the political establishment and they concern the future of our economy. And the ultimate fruit of these lies may well be another Johnson or Nigel Farage.

Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist