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Liz Truss almost certainly knows more economics and mathematics than the Bank of England’s Governor, Andrew Bailey, who is a historian, and the “Deputy Governor of Financial Stability”, Jon Cunliffe, whose degrees are in English. Truss attended Oxford and Cunliffe attended University of Manchester. Oxford is clearly the most prestigious. Truss’ husband is an accountant with the sort of background that one would expect and hope that the Governors of the Bank of England would have. Andrew Bailey, a historian, was appointed by Sajid Javi, who previously worked for Deutsche Bank. Sajid Javi is a Rishi Sunak supporter.

Liz Truss “read philosophy, politics and economics(PPE) at Merton College, Oxford, graduating in 1996… Her father is an emeritus professor of pure mathematics at the University of Leeds, while her mother was a nurse and teacher.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss Truss’ husband, Hugh O’Leary “went on to study econometrics and mathematical economics at the London School of Economics before becoming an accountant” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_O%27Leary

The Bank of England’s “Deputy Governor of Financial Stability”, Sir Jon Cunliffe “has a Master of Arts in English Language and Literature from the University of Manchester and spent some time as a Lecturer on English Literature at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.” https://web.archive.org/web/20200924111441/https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2013/july/sir-jon-cunliffe-appointed-deputy-governor-for-financial-stability If he had a degree in accounting or economics, it would say so.

This very anti-Liz Truss, anti-Boris Johnson person is apparently the daughter of Sir Jon Cunliffe. Although unable to confirm it apart from Wikipedia, she’s either his daughter or his clone based on looks. Her father, who is responsible for UK financial stability, has degrees in English and she’s apparently an expert in Ancient Greek, but an editor. What an upside down world: “Senior Associate Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, “indulgent editrix”, at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea Londonnewstatesman.com/uk”
https://web.archive.org/web/20221022091217/https://twitter.com/RMCunliffe
https://web.archive.org/web/20220811205448/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cunliffe

Boris “Johnson excelled in English and the Classics, winning prizes in both” at Eton. “Johnson won a scholarship to read Literae Humaniores at Balliol College, Oxford, a four-year course in the study of the Classics, ancient literature and classical philosophy.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson#Eton_and_Oxford:_1977–1987

“Sir Jon Cunliffe appointed Deputy Governor for Financial Stability
HM Treasury has today announced that Her Majesty The Queen has agreed, on the recommendation of the Chancellor and Prime Minister, to appoint Sir Jon Cunliffe as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England with responsibility for Financial Stability, starting on 1 November 2013.” https://web.archive.org/web/20200924111441/https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2013/july/sir-jon-cunliffe-appointed-deputy-governor-for-financial-stability

“Published on 26 July 2013
As the Bank’s Deputy Governor for Financial Stability, Sir Jon Cunliffe will play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and stability of the UK’s financial sector and will sit on the Bank’s Court of Directors, the Financial Policy Committee, the Monetary Policy Committee, the Board of the Prudential Regulation Authority, and will represent the Bank on a number of national and international bodies.” https://web.archive.org/web/20220928150830/https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2013/july/sir-jon-cunliffe-appointed-deputy-governor-for-financial-stability

What does this have to do with English language and literature?
“Biography
Term of appointment: 1 November 2013 – 31 October 2023

Sir Jon Cunliffe became Deputy Governor for Financial Stability on 1 November 2013. Jon is a member of the Bank’s Financial Policy and Monetary Policy Committees, the Bank’s Court of Directors and the Prudential Regulation Committee.

He has specific responsibility within the Bank for financial stability, for the supervision and oversight of financial market infrastructures and payment systems and for international.

He is a member of the G20 Financial Stability Board Steering Committee.  He is Chair of the Bank for International Settlements Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures.

Before joining the Bank, Jon was the UK Permanent Representative to the European Union, effective from 9 January 2012. From July 2007 to December 2011, he was the Prime Minister’s Advisor on Europe and Global Issues and the UK Sherpa for the G8 and G20 and the Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary responsible for EU coordination.

Between 2002 and 2007, Jon was Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury, Managing Director of the Macroeconomic and International Finance Directorate. He was responsible for UK macroeconomic policy, international and EU policy and financial services and the Government’s representative at the meetings of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee.

Between 1990 and 2002, Jon held various posts at HM Treasury, including Managing Director for Financial Regulation and posts on EU and international finance. He led the Treasury’s work on operational independence of the Bank of England; European Monetary Union; and the international financial system. Prior to that Jon held a number of posts at the Department of Transport and the Environment. 

Jon was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the New Year Honours 2001, and made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2010. He has a Master of Arts in English Language and Literature from the University of Manchester and spent some time as a Lecturer on English Literature at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Member of
* Monetary Policy Committee
* Financial Policy Committee
* Prudential Regulation Committee
* Court of Directors“ https://web.archive.org/web/20221017080307/https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/jon-cunliffe/biography

“Cunliffe, who is Anglo-Jewish,[10] married his wife at the New London Synagogue in St John’s Wood, north-west London.[11] He has two daughters, one of whom works as an online editor at the New Statesman.[12] [1] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (“CB”) in the New Year Honours 2001,[13] and made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2010.[14]“ https://web.archive.org/web/20220811205448/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cunliffe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_Synagogue

“Sir Jon Cunliffe career profile
The new Bank of England deputy spent most of his career in the Treasury, and was a key figure alongside Gordon Brown in 2008…
In 2007, following Gordon Brown’s appointment as prime minister, Cunliffe was appointed head of the European and global issues secretariat. In this role he accompanied Brown in discussions at the G8 and G20 and was credited with helping Brown forge a co-ordinated response to the banking crash…”https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/26/sir-jon-cunliffe-profile-bank-england

“Under Brown, the party continued to use the phrase “New Labour”. Brown’s government introduced rescue packages in 2008 and 2009 to help keep the banks afloat during the global financial crisis, and as a result the United Kingdom’s national debt increased dramatically. The Government took majority shareholdings in Northern Rock and Royal Bank of Scotland, both of which experienced severe financial difficulties, and injected large amounts of public money into several other banks, including Lloyds Banking Group, which formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. In 2008, Brown’s government passed the world’s first Climate Change Act, and introduced the Equality Act in 2010. Despite initial rises in opinion polls after Brown became Prime Minister, Labour’s popularity declined with the onset of the Great Recession, leading to poor results in the local and European elections in 2009.[6][7][8] In the 2010 general election, Labour lost 91 seats, the party’s biggest loss of seats in a single general election since 1931,[9] resulting in a hung parliament in which the Conservatives were the largest party. After the Conservative Party formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, Brown was succeeded as Prime Minister by David Cameron. Brown later played a prominent role in the campaign to maintain the union during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.[10]”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Brown#Global_recession

“Liz Truss Is Not to Blame for The U.K. Market Turmoil. The Bank of England Is” 16 October, 2022 Sin categoría By Daniel Lacalle https://www.dlacalle.com/en/liz-truss-is-not-to-blame-for-the-u-k-market-turmoil-the-bank-of-england-is

Conspiracy with Bank of England?
“Lord Cruddas of Shoreditch Retweeted
CallyJ #bringbackboris @Short2Cjs
Professor Minford on @GBNEWS Kwasi budget …”the root of it all was failure of implementation essentially with the Civil Service & the Bank of England” In other words there was a conspiracy to make sure it never got off the starting blocks.” https://web.archive.org/web/20221018180335/https://twitter.com/peteratcmc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England#Governance_of_the_Bank_of_England

Bank of England had to add a COO to have someone who knows something about economics and mathematics, it appears: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Place

The actual Governor of the Bank of England is a history PhD:
“Bailey attended Wyggeston Boys’ Grammar School, Leicester, from where he went to Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he gained a bachelor’s degree in History (promoted to MA by seniority in 1985) and a PhD from the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge in 1984 with a thesis on The impact of the Napoleonic Wars on the development of the cotton industry in Lancashire: a study of the structure and behaviour of firms during the Industrial Revolution.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bailey_(banker)

Wharton is the school that Donald Trump attended. The Chair of Court is a South African trained accountant. Chair of Court: “Fried was born in Cape Town, South Africa.[4] He has a bachelor’s degree in commerce, awarded with distinction, from the University of Cape Town. He was a Palmer Scholar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was awarded a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) with distinction.[1] He is also a qualified chartered accountant, having trained with Arthur Andersen in South Africa.[5]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Fried

University College Oxford Philosopher-Stanford Economist is the “Chief Economist” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huw_Pill

As points of comparison:

US:
Chair of US Federal Reserve. Also not an accountant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Powell#Early_life_and_education

Who is chair of financial stability?
https://www.federalreserve.gov/financial-stability.htm

Switzerland
Thomas Jordan (economist) “is the chairman of the governing board of the Swiss National Bank, chairman of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group, a member of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements, and a member of the steering committee of the Financial Stability Board” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jordan_(economist)

The nature of Hildebrand’s degrees and any relevancy is unclear. “Hildebrand was the head of the Swiss central bank, the Swiss National Bank (SNB), from 2010 until he resigned on 9 January 2012 after controversy surrounding his wife’s currency trading.[3][4] He had been a member of the central bank’s governing board since 2003.[5]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Hildebrand
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Hildebrand