The Guardian view on Monarch’s collapse: the market at work | Editorial

The chancellor wants voters to back the Tories as the party of free markets. But he can’t ensure that capitalism delivers for allAt the Conservative party conference in Manchester, where the chancellor Philip Hammond was extolling the virtues of free markets, the day’s big example of markets at work – the failure of Monarch – did not rate a mention. The airline went into administration hours before Mr Hammond spoke on Monday morning, at the least disrupting the holiday pl