Liz Truss’s silence since mini-budget disaster looms

Four years ago, when she was chief secretary of the Treasury, Liz Truss was overhearded by a Green party activist who gossiped about her colleagues in a restaurant. He posted all her comments on Twitter and, among the personal gossip, he recorded Truss setting out her approach to risk. She said Theresa May was too pacifist. No one ever expected Truss to embrace the chaos as recklessly as she did in her first few weeks as prime minister. As we reported in our overnight story, the Bank of England is having to spend 65 billion repairing the damage done to financial markets by last week's disastrous mini-budget. Some Tories think this is an extinction-level moment for the party, as Pippa Crerar and Jessica Elgot report in their story on the political fallout.

The situation has worse because Liz Truss has been silent since the mini-budget, apart from an interview with CNN in the US on Sunday. She is giving interviews to local radio stations of the BBC. The Conservative leader normally does a round of local radio interviews ahead of the party conference, and that is why they are in the diary. She is first on Radio Leeds at 8 am. She says it's likely that it's going to draw more attention than a normal interview on the station. I try to monitor the comments below the BTL line, but it is impossible to read all of them. If you have a direct question, include Andrew somewhere and I'm more likely to find it. I do try to answer questions, and if they are of general interest, I will post the question and reply above the line ATL, although I can't promise to do this for everyone.

If you want to draw my attention quickly, it is probably better to use Twitter.