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Our new prime minister, Liz Truss, unlike her controversial predecessor, is not the sort of person to pepper her conversation with references to Roman politicians such as Cincinnatus. But, as the first accountant to occupy 10 Downing Street, she might be more likely to get the numbers right.

Savers and investors can also draw comfort from our new chancellor of the exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, being unusually qualified for his work. He has an economics PhD from Cambridge.

Here and now you do not need to be an accountant or an economist to know that the cheapest energy of all is the gas, electricity, oil or coal you don’t need to buy. That’s Why it’s so sad that the government proposals we have seen so far