In a sign that he plans to take personal charge of the autumn Budget , the Prime Minister appointed his own economic guru and poached the Chancellor's deputy and chief tax adviser.

Baroness Minouche Shafik is set to be hired as the Prime Minister's chief economic adviser in the latest revamp of No 10's top team.

The Prime Minister is said to be planning to ring the changes in his front bench team in a bid to combat the rise of Nigel Farage's Reform over the summer recess.

The Prime Minister has not so much undermined his Chancellor as publicly humiliated her