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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Pippa Crerar Political editor

Revealed: rightwing ‘slash and burn’ ideas that could be blueprint for Truss

Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss
Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss are planning a package of supply-side reforms, mostly involving deregulation. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

A free-market thinktank with close links to Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng has drawn up a blueprint of “slash and burn” ideas that could form the basis of the government’s supply-side reform programme to be set out in coming weeks.

The document from the Free Market Forum (FMF), an offshoot of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), suggests scrapping free childcare hours, releasing green belt land for housing, abolishing corporation tax and dropping teacher training qualifications for graduates.

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