Truss ousted by Left before she was given chance on tax says top Tory

FORMER prime minister Liz Truss’s claims she was never given a realistic chance” to put her economic plan into action have been backed by a leading Tory.

- Martyn Brown

In her first detailed comments since she was dramatically forced out of office, Ms Truss blamed a powerful, Left-leaning economic establishment” for her failure to realise her vision.

While she acknowledged she was not blameless” for the way her infamous mini-Budget catastrophically unravelled in September, she said she still believed her approach to driving growth was the right one.

Her intervention is likely to be seen as a rallying cry for Tory MPs who have been pressing PM Rishi Sunak and his Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, to bring down taxes to kickstart growth.