Is Liz Truss doomed?
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Bank of England Intervention - What's the Point?
This week we came within hours of a British financial crisis, becoming an international one. Were it not for emergency Bank of England intervention, Britain would have become the national equivalent of Lehman Brothers. Liz Trust finds herself in that worst place for any politician to inhabit. If she retreats from the policy politically, she's finished. But what if she doesn't retreat? Well, this is what a former deputy director of the IMF said this week on News Night: We came this close to a financial accident. So there's a lot to do in the next few days. I think we are now deep in the world of third and fourth best. There is no action that doesn't have some
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