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LIZ TRUSS attempted to shift the blame today for her failed economic growth plan during her 49-day premiership in a renewed Tory infighting spree.
The former PM said that she was not given a “realistic chance” to implement her tax-cutting agenda due to opposition from a “powerful economic establishment coupled with a lack of political support”
She pointed the finger, in The Sunday Telegraph, firstly at the Bank of England for failing to curb inflation and then Treasury officials who failed to advise her.
Ms Truss also targeted the Office for Budget Responsibility, Downing Street communications, Tories who “triangulated” with Labour, the International Monetary Fund and even US President Joe Biden.
Tory peer Lord Barwell was scathing about Ms Truss’s comments, saying: “During a profound cost-of-living crisis, you thought it was a priority to cut tax for the richest people in the country.”
Labour said that the Conservatives “crashed the economy, sank the pound, put pensions in peril and made working people pay the price through higher mortgages for years to come.”
The Scottish Greens said that Ms Truss was “brought down by her own recklessness” and her “absurd attempt to rewrite history won’t work.”
