Liz Truss’s financial imaginative and prescient appeared doomed on Sunday, as she sought to remain in energy regardless of an more and more shaky-looking premiership.

New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, introduced in to exchange the sacked Kwasi Kwarteng and to revive credibility to Downing Road, spent Saturday successfully trashing the mini-budget and the set of insurance policies that introduced Ms Truss to energy.

Amid warnings of “troublesome choices” to come back over the subsequent two weeks, Mr Hunt and Ms Truss will meet in her Chequers residence on Sunday as tax rises and spending cuts loom on the