TRUSS DEFENDS TAX CUTS

UK PRIME Minister Liz Truss has defended her tax-cutting policy after days of silence during which markets tanked and the Bank of England was forced into an emergency intervention. “We had to take urgent action to get our economy growing, get Britain moving, and also deal with inflation,” she said in BBC radio interviews. “That means taking controversial and difficult decisions,” she added, in her first comments to UK media since the crisis sparked by last Friday’s “mini-budget”. |