
Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng during a visit to a construction site
(Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA)Liz Truss was struggling to maintain Cabinet discipline as Conservative critics who forced her U-turn on slashing income tax for the highest earners were accused of a “coup”.
Amid bitter infighting at the Conservative Party Conference, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng appeared to back down from considering another U-turn by now ruling out bringing forward his medium-term fiscal plan.