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Sami Quadri

Liz Truss kissing goodbye to Red Wall with tax cuts, MPs fear

Liz Truss has been warned that she could lose support from “red wall” voters in the north after huge tax cuts were announced during the week, by a Tory MP.

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s so-called “mini-Budget” introduced the biggest package of tax cuts in decades which included the abolition of the top rate of income tax, a cut in the basic rate, a reduction in stamp duty, the cancellation of the National Insurance increase and the scrapping of the rise in corporation tax from 19pc to 25pc.

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