Truss economic guru a ‘python’ ready to target Scotland’s cash, SNP warn

Liz Truss has appointed Matthew Sinclair to head a new economics unit

THE appointment of Liz Truss’s new chief economic guru is like “putting a python in charge of the family’s pet hamster”, according to the SNP.

Matthew Sinclair, who was a director and economics adviser at Deloitte bank has reportedly joined the new team in Downing Street to head a new economic unit.