Tom Scholar, permanent secretary to the Treasury, sacked by Liz Truss

Government likely to seek replacement amenable to its plans of economic growth through tax cuts

Liz Truss has underlined her apparent intention to rip up recent economic policies by removing Tom Scholar as the most senior civil servant in the Treasury, despite warnings that his experience could prove vital this winter.

Before becoming prime minister, Truss railed repeatedly against what she called Treasury orthodoxy", notably the predictions that her plan to make large and unfunded cut taxes could raise inflation and increase interest rates.