The UK's shortest-serving prime minister claimed her tax-cutting plans were opposed by a 'co-ordinated resistance'
Britain’s shortest-serving leader delivered the Margaret Thatcher Lecture for the right-wing think-tank Heritage Foundation in Washington on Wednesday, where she launched a staunch defence of her brief time in power.
Ms Truss was forced out of No 10 after her disastrous “mini-Budget” promised an unfunded cut to the 45p rate of income tax, while promising a series of a supply side reforms to boost the economy. Speaking on Wednesday, she said the plans were met with a “co-ordinated resistance” from a variety of external forces.“My plans for tax cuts and supply side reform were about making Britain more competitive. They were about making us a more successful country,” she said.
“Those plans were backed by Conservative members across the country. But we faced co-ordinated resistance. “We didn’t just face co-ordinated resistance from inside the Conservative Party, or even inside the British corporate establishment, we faced it from the IMF and even from President Biden.”, describing his calling on President Xi Jinping to try and broker peace in Ukraine as a “sign of weakness”.is simply something not of direct interest to Europe. I don’t agree with that at all,” she said.
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