M0nica
There is clever and there is intelligent, which encompasses so much else, emotional intelligence, a broad understanding of the world beyond the subject you are so clever in.
Truss and Kwarteng are clever, they are not intelligent.
Boris was neither.
Oddly, it was Urmstongran who IMO hit the nail on the head regarding Truss when she said she didn't think she had the intellectual heft to carry this off.
When you get the bit between your teeth as Truss has done, I think you've got to have a very keen understanding not only of your subject but of its ramifications. It's all very well her saying that she's prepared to be unpopular - and in so saying she is exhibiting her egotistical bravado - but you have got to know how to manoeuvre your plan against the opposition to it, because such opposition can derail it and cause further eruptions in other areas, as we've already seen. She understands so little, intellectually, that in desperation she tried to defend herself by blaming the market turmoil caused by her blowout, on Russia's war with Ukraine, and what she calls the "international situation".! Well, yeah, these are having an effect on the markets so maybe now is not the time for tax cuts ?
Her and Kamikwasi have refused to publish the OBR's forecast, ignored the IMF and are keeping their plans a secret only allowing ministers to 'hint' at what might be in store, which is, as we all knew it would be, further cuts to those who are the least able to foot the bill, drip-feeding this information when it looks like the markets might be getting spooked again!