Alex Brummer

History tells us that when new brooms arrive at the Treasury, there is always a black hole.

History tells us that when new brooms arrive at the Treasury, there is always a black hole.

Implanted in the minds of citizens is the idea that the cost of mortgages and credit for consumers and enterprise is high as a result of the Truss tantrum.

As the son of a refugee from the horrors of the Holocaust, I can feel nothing but contempt for the ignorance, gross insensitivity and misguided hatred which inspired such a protest.

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves' choice of language to describe the Tory economic narrative and the timing of her intervention is strange.

Independent regulation has not been an unalloyed success as users of the sewage-tainted water utilities and get-rich-quick energy firms could testify.

There is a mammoth mismatch between public perceptions of Britain as a basket case economy and the reality.

ALEX BRUMMER: Growth exceeded all expectations in the first three months of the year, with the economy improving by 0.6 per cent.

Independent regulation has not been an unalloyed success, as users of the sewage-tainted water utilities and those wronged by get-rich-quick energy upstarts could testify.

Reeves has so far failed to conjure up the rhetorical flourishes of Wilson. But it is understood advisers are developing a revised industrial strategy.