Backbench toadying and frontbench floundering at Treasury questions

Or that someone of Liz Truss’s limited abilities should be second in command of the country’s finances.The first Treasury questions of the new year got under way with a bit of shameless Tory backbench toadying.Was it not true that the economy was in fantastic shape, observed Charlie Elphicke, and that people on low pay were better off than they had ever been?