Liz Truss considered cutting NHS cancer care to pay for tax cuts, claims new book

Anthony Seldon’s book is largely excoriating account of Liz Truss’s 45 days in Downing Street. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

Liz Truss considered cutting cancer care on the NHS in a desperate bid to find savings to pay for the tax cuts in her botched “mini budget”, according to a new book about her time in office.

The book, Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister by the renowned political biographer Anthony Seldon, is a 330-page long, largely excoriating account of Truss’s 45 days in Downing Street.