Liz Truss is long gone from Downing Street – but zombie economics lives on | Aditya Chakrabortty

Liz Truss’s stint at the top of politics ended years ago .

Yet in British political culture, she is the great undead.

How did her reign end? By breaking solemn promises and making spending cuts.

How have Starmer and Reeves responded to this far more minor squall? By welching on a solemn pledge to have only one autumn budget.

Gordon Brown’s golden rule’ telegraphed to the public his priorities in tax and spending.

George Osborne broke his own fiscal rules with as much anxiety as Toad of Toad Hall .

Just when British prime ministers needed statecraft and strong institutional backing, Truss crashed out a deeply witless budget.