Watch: Mark Carney takes a pop at Liz Truss and Brexiteers

Poor Liz Truss. Today is the day Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister had hoped to launch an impassioned defence of her legacy.

In a speech this morning marking the approaching anniversary of her disastrous mini budget, Truss planned to talk up her economic plan and attack her critics among ‘the London dinner party circuit’. But it looks like a member of that particular set has beaten Truss to it.

Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney said that Brexiteers wanted to turn Britain into ‘Singapore on Thames’. Instead, he said, Truss and her colleagues, delivered ‘Argentina on the Channel’ because of their misguided views on economics.

Carney’s withering verdict was delivered during a speech in Canada. Perhaps Truss might need to tweak her speech to refer to more than just the capital’s dinner party scene.