How is Liz Truss’s government challenging ‘Treasury orthodoxy’?

Sir Tom Scholar's removal from Treasury marks departure from classic Treasury view of the world

Sir Tom Scholar's removal as the Treasury's top mandarin was a brutal statement of intent by Liz Truss's new government. The message was clear: the days when Britain's economic strategy would be determined by bean counters were over. From now on, growth rather than balancing the books would be the priority.

That is the theory. In practice, removing what Truss sees as the dead hand" of Treasury orthodoxy from the running of the economy is likely to prove difficult. The fact that all four deputy governors of the Bank of England are Treasury old boys is an example of its influence on the economic policy-making machinery. There have been attempts in the past to cut Whitehall's most powerful department down to size. Sooner or later, all have failed.