The perfidy of the civil service, leaving the European Union, having party leaders elected by activists: there is a depressing tendency for ideas that once were the causes of the 1970s Bennite left to become the positions of the modern populist right.
The latest addition to this list is the notion that all that stands between society and transformation are the mistakes of forecasters, either accidental or, it is darkly hinted, deliberate.
Today in her memoirs Liz Truss blames her demise largely on the errors of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the official but independent forecasting body. Not that long ago, in her own preposterous book The Plot, Nadine Dorries implicated the OBR in the fall of Boris Johnson. Truss argues that Richard
