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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jitendra Joshi

Scorn as Truss rejects blame a year on from disastrous mini-budget

Liz Truss’s defence of her economic agenda was met with derision on Monday, as the former PM resurfaced with a defiant speech a year on since her mini-budget crashed the economy.

She claimed that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was spending £35 billion more than if her programme to kick-start growth had been followed, and denied her tax-slashing plans were “unfunded”.

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