Why is Liz Truss sacking top civil servants? Because she wants to suppress dissent | Simon Jenkins

This is government Trump-style – the PM would rather lose the benefits of insight and experience than tolerate opposing views

The prime minister’s peremptory sacking of the head of the Treasury, Tom Scholar, is ominous. It was one of her first decisions and cannot have been anything he said or did. She had already let it be known, through “allies”, that she also intended to sack the cabinet secretary, Simon Case, but apparently changed her mind. Scholar’s sin was that he supposedly embodied the “...