Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng visiting Berkeley Modular in Kent on the day of the “fiscal event”

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Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have taken a huge gamble with the public finances, says David Smith (News, last week). The tenets of sensible gambling are straightforward: never bet more than you can afford to lose, never bet with other people’s money and never borrow in order to gamble. Unfortunately, our prime minister seems not to have been taught this while doing PPE at Oxford.

Gambling can ruin lives — not just that of the gambler but also those of their friends and relations. How many lives will Truss and Kwarteng’s gamble ruin, I wonder.
David Crowther, Melton Mowbray

Nothing like Thatcher
Smith’s column is headlined: “Know your history, PM: you can’t do Thatcherism twice”. But Truss is not even doing it