Liz Truss has admitted her plan to abolish the 45p top rate of income tax was a “bridge too far”, as she otherwise dug in in her defence of her failed bid to boost growth.
In her first interview since she was forced out of No 10, the former prime minister said she was maybe “trying to fatten the pig on market day” with the policy, as she vowed to continue to make the case for tax cuts.
