Throughout a torturous month for the prime minister, there was one achievement that Liz Truss could still claim: the energy price freeze. Now she has abandoned the last weapon she has in her armoury. In doing so, she has probably sealed her own fate.
Jeremy Hunt will now end the energy price freeze in April, after six months rather than two years. The universal policy had its critics, but it was the one announcement of her premiership that Truss could genuinely claim would alleviate the anxiety and suffering of millions.
