As Liz Truss was trialling to be a final runner in the Tory leadership relay race, she made one thing very clear. She would take the authoritarian truncheon from Boris Johnson’s hand with gleeful zeal.
“There will be families who won’t be able to pay bills, who will have issues getting food on the table. Historically speaking, that means we’re in for some kind of protest,” says Malte Laub, an international political economy lecturer at King’s College London.