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'This is the right plan': Prime minister Liz Truss won't abandon mini-budget amid criticism

Liz Truss has admitted that the tax cuts in her mini-Budget “disproportionately” benefit the wealthy – but insisted they were the “right plan” and sought to blame Russia’s Vladimir Putin for the recent days of market turmoil.