“The only time I’ve chaired one of our operations meetings and there have been no leads coming through at all was during Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s government,” says Ben Derbyshire, chair of housing architect HTA Design. “The uncertainty that those two managed to instantaneously create was remarkable”. 

Derbyshire’s practice is far from alone in having been temporarily scorched by the economic firestorm which Truss and Kwarteng accidentally whipped up during their brief tenure in power. It has, all told, been a rough few months for architects. 

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