LIZ TRUSS today warned Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that she will keep making the case for lower taxes as her return to the political spotlight threatened to reopen bitter divisions in the Tory party.
In a fresh intervention, Britain's shortest-serving PM said she had "more time available now to make the argument and that's what I want to do". Her latest comments, in an interview with Spectator TV, come a day after she launched a staunch defence of her brief premiership, using a 4,000word essay in the Sunday Telegraph to argue her plans to cut taxes would have boosted economic growth. She also blamed a Left-leaning "orthodoxy" in the country's economic establishment as well as some Tory MPs for the chaos which followed her notorious tax slashing mini-Budget last September.
Ms Truss today appeared to accept a share of the responsibility for the mayhem in the financial markets caused by her economic policies, saying: "Was I trying to fatten the pig on market day? Maybe. I believed it was do-able... I knew it would be tough, but probably didn't realise quite how tough."
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