104 Potential Cuts: The Readout With Allegra Stratton

It was fracking that did for Liz Truss and today her successor did for fracking. Rishi Sunak’s government has reimposed the fracking ban — formally killing the idea there would be low level earthquakes in the UK any time soon (even though it was going to be vanishingly rare that plans ever got local approval).

The stories of Tory mutiny and chaos on the night of the fracking vote are so fruity they are guaranteed a prominent place in any chronicle of the tumultuous fall of the Truss administration. But for now, as fracking is scrapped, UK politics seems to be going down a notch on the Richter scale.