Between midday and 12:10 p.m. sterling slumped three times. That was their response to Keir. But after 10 minutes, the markets had clocked the Chancellor’s face and the pound went into a vertical dive.
She started out bravely but it was clear to sketch writers and other psychiatric diagnosticians she was suffering. She sat hunched, sunken, head dropped between her shoulders. It’s not a great place to be going through this sort of crisis, there on the front bench of PMQs.
