Are you against growth, Liz Truss asks in her speech to the Tory party conference. What about your credentials as a disruptor? Can you say, with a steady hand on your trusty sword, that you have cut through anything more than a pat of butter in the past few years, let alone weeks?
Growth in all its guises should be positive for the economy. Growth promotes new jobs and incomes, says Truss. Disruption likewise. But when a government says it wants to build, build, build and at the same time achieve net zero carbon emissions, there are obvious contradictions.
