Liz Truss' tax cut U-turn might just end up ending her time as Prime Minister prematurely.
New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has reversed almost all of her plans to stabilise the economy slightly, but the political damage is starting to take hold.
Latest polling shows the Conservatives are trailing Labour by 36 points - the biggest margin in history.
UK correspondent Rod Liddle told Mike Hosking she only has herself to blame for the disastrous plan rather than Hunt's predecessor.
He says you wouldn't become party leader, and hand control of the economy to a Chancellor - without knowing what the plan was.
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