Liz Truss criticised over ‘endless crazy tax cuts’ by former treasury minister

Liz Truss has been blasted for proposing “endless crazy tax cuts” to appeal to a small group of Conservative members who will pick the new party leader.

Lord O’Neill, a former Tory treasury minister, also suggested he’d been left “speechless” by the proposal on regional pay, which Ms Truss has since U-turned on.

“Dear dear dear, if you’re going to come up with endless crazy tax cuts to keep yourself popular with a small number of people who vote for the next leader, then that’s the sort of thing that follows,” he said.

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