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UK correspondent: Liz Truss only has herself to blame

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Publish Date
Tue, 18 Oct 2022, 9:05am
 Liz Truss attends a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London on Friday October 14, 2022, following the sacking of the finance minister in response to a budget that sparked markets chaos. Photo / AP
Liz Truss attends a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London on Friday October 14, 2022, following the sacking of the finance minister in response to a budget that sparked markets chaos. Photo / AP

UK correspondent: Liz Truss only has herself to blame

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 18 Oct 2022, 9:05am

Liz Truss' tax cut U-turn might just end up ending her time as Prime Minister prematurely.

New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has reversed almost all of her plans to stabilise the economy slightly, but the political damage is starting to take hold.

Latest polling shows the Conservatives are trailing Labour by 36 points - the biggest margin in history.

UK correspondent Rod Liddle told Mike Hosking she only has herself to blame for the disastrous plan rather than Hunt's predecessor.

He says you wouldn't become party leader, and hand control of the economy to a Chancellor - without knowing what the plan was.

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