No doubt Jonathan Freedland is right: the chaos of the mini-budget and Brexit are rooted in the same delusional version of national sovereignty (The markets have taken back control: so much for Truss’s Brexit delusion of sovereignty, 14 October). But the link between them is tighter than that.
The self-proclaimed Spartans of Brexit, such as the European Research Group, were explicit that the purpose of Brexit was to free Britain from the shackles of the EU for a particular reason. It was to pursue exactly the type of supply-side reforms introduced in the mini-budget and advocated in the earlier Liz Truss-Kwasi Kwarteng manifesto Britannia Unchained.
