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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Blewett

Liz Truss: 44 days of chaos, U-turns and an economic vision shattered

PA Wire

Liz Truss entered Downing Street by promising Tory members she would turbocharge the economy with billions of pounds of unfunded tax cuts, in a tearing up of financial orthodoxy.

But faced with economic and political reality, she was humiliatingly dispatched by her MPs so quickly that she is now in the record books as the shortest-serving prime minister.

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