The first thing Prime Minister Liz Truss needs to do? U-turn on everything she believes in | Simon Jenkins

She’s a small-state ideologue, but all that matters is that she carries the UK through this economic crisis

Liz Truss enters Downing Street tomorrow to face an economic emergency that is unprecedented in peacetime. She will meet it, we are told, with £100bn of public money, significantly more than what her predecessor, Boris Johnson, spent on furlough during the Covid crisis. This will require a blatant U-turn for a prime minister who spent the summer campaigning for office on a pledge of no more...