Trussonomics is a fanatical, fantastical creed, and the last thing Britain needs | George Monbiot

Just when we need visions of a better world, the prime minister is proclaiming the toxic gospel of neoliberalism

Soon, the focus will return, and the collapse of many people's economic prospects will dominate once more. As winter approaches, it will become clear that our politics is spectacularly lacking in answers.

Why? Because the doctrine destroying our condition of life is the doctrine Liz Truss has promised to extend to new extremes. She is fanatically devoted to an ideology misleadingly called Thatcherism or Reaganism (as if they invented it), but more accurately described as neoliberalism.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist