Cost to taxpayer of Truss’s £100bn energy package has escaped scrutiny

MPs had no chance to question Jacob Rees-Mogg's announcement and no one is marking Kwasi Kwarteng's homework

There can be no starker contrast between how the two political parties are judged on economic policy than the way the past fortnight has played out for Liz Truss.

The astonishing scale of state spending to relieve the energy crisis and enable tax cuts has been announced with total omerta thus far on how much the proposals will cost the British taxpayer.