Liz Truss goes into her first Conservative party conference with the latest Opinium polling giving Labour a 19-point-lead and her own approval ratings down at -37 – worse than Boris Johnson’s in his final days in office. Yet despite this, the new Prime Minister used her first big sit down interview since the fallout from the not-so-mini Budget to insist that she was not for turning. Truss told Laura Kuenssberg that she stands by all the measures announced last Friday – including abolishing the 45p rate of income tax for the highest earners.
The furthest Truss would go in accepting that her first fiscal event – which has spooked the markets, voters and many Tory MPs – had not gone to plan was to say she should have ‘laid the ground better’:
‘I will make sure in the future we will do a better job at laying the ground’
Truss’s interview also pointed to further turbulence ahead
Yet Truss insisted she would not row back on any part of it.
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