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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor

Truss tax cuts were ‘not right approach’ before tackling inflation, says Shapps

Grant Shapps gesturing as he speaks during a TV interview
‘You have got to deal with the fundamentals first,’ Grant Shapps said on Sunday. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA

Liz Truss’s tax-cutting agenda “clearly wasn’t the right approach” before the government had tackled inflation, the business secretary, Grant Shapps, has said in a retort to an essay by the former prime minister.

Truss, in her first major intervention since leaving office, wrote that she had “not [been] given a realistic chance to enact my policies by a very powerful economic establishment, coupled with a lack of political support”.

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