Liz Truss has scrapped the controversial tax cut for the rich this morning in a huge U-turn after a Tory revolt.
The humiliated Prime Minister dropped her plans to axe the 45p top Income Tax rate just a day after saying she was "absolutely committed" to it on national TV.
One ex-Cabinet minister branded the PM a "dead woman walking" who would be gone by Christmas as reports emerged of the U-turn in the small hours, while multiple government sources refused to comment.