The Chancellor's days at No 11 Downing Street are drawing to an end - and I can't wait for the removal men to come along and haul away her clobber.

In a devastating double-whammy ahead of the Chancellor's likely sacking, reports showed manufacturers and the once-mighty services sector floundering as confidence evaporates.

No fairy godmother ever promised that our first female Chancellor of the Exchequer would be up to the job. And so it has proved.