Sir Anthony Seldon’s new book, “Truss at 10”, is out today. It’s good, knockabout stuff that demonstrates, in very fine detail, why Liz Truss was spectacularly unsuited to being Prime Minister and how her tenure imploded after just 49 days.

Yet, amongst the entertaining briefings and discussion around Truss’s tenure across the media, one topic that doesn’t get the attention it deserves is Truss’s Energy Price Guarantee.

Through the back end of 2021 and into 2022, as global economies recovered from the Covid pandemic, the UK natural gas price had been high and was getting higher.