How Liz Truss plunged the UK to the brink of recession in just one month

The new prime minister began September promising a new era' for Britain. One economic crisis later, she has delivered

Britain's new prime minister, Liz Truss, has been in office for less than a month, but her premiership is already deep in crisis, while Britain teeters on the brink of recession.

Truss took over from Boris Johnson at the start of September and was immediately plunged in at the deep end, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II. But the 10-day national period of mourning came to an end abruptly.