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By Jack Barnett Liz Truss or former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng did not tell the Bank of England of their plans to slash taxes £45bn in last month’s botched mini-budget, one of the central bank’s executives said today. Sir Jon Cunliffe, the Bank’s deputy governor of financial stability, told the treasury select committee today the government did not brief the central bank on their fiscal plans. The central bank is usually given a heads up before a budget is delivered. Steep moves in UK debt markets in the weeks after the mini-budget on 23 September were “outside of historical experience,” he sai…