Charles Dickens could teach Truss !

[Flying Bomb]

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery"

[klondike]

Pity that te preceding umpteen years of government  failed to read that too. 

[Raven]

That was one of my mothers favourite sayings when I left home, she just couldn't keep her nose out of my finances, or anything else.

[Michael Rolls]

one of my favourite sayings - and it totally unfair to imply that this was not practiced by her predecessors

[klondike]

totally unfair to imply that this was not practiced by her predecessors

You are joking of course. Governments have been running with a budget defecit all of this century and apart from brief periods of surplus since the 70s

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06167/#:~:text=Since%201970%2F71%2C%20the%20government,surplus%20was%20in%202000%2F01.