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David Bond

New threat of Tory infighting as Truss says: I’ll keep stating case for low tax

Liz Truss was prime minister for a mere 41 days

(Picture: PA Wire)

Liz Truss has warned Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that she will keep making the case for lower taxes as her return to the political spotlight threatened to reopen bitter divisions in the Tory party.

In a fresh intervention, Britain’s shortest-serving PM said she had “more time available now to make the argument and that’s what I want to do”. Her latest comments, in an interview with Spectator TV, come a day after she launched a staunch defence of her brief premiership, using a 4,000-word essay in the Sunday Telegraph to argue her plans to cut taxes would have boosted economic growth. She also blamed a Left-leaning “orthodoxy” in the country’s economic establishment as well as some Tory MPs for the chaos which followed her notorious tax slashing mini-Budget last September.

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