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Barney Davis and Matt Watts

Liz Truss ‘willing to be unpopular PM’ to grow British economy

Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks to journalists at the Empire State Building in New York during her visit to the US

(Picture: PA)

Liz Truss has said she is willing to be an unpopular Prime Minister to bring in measures she believes will grow the economy.

In interviews on her arrival in New York for a UN summit, Ms Truss confirmed she would be reversing the national insurance hike and axing the planned increase to corporation tax, ahead of Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget on Friday.

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