Liz Truss News - Live: Deleted 'Bonkers' politics 'could have cost Tories next election'

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Tory leader Liz Truss' quickly abandoned policy of cutting public sector wages for workers outside London was 'just bonkers' and likely would have cost his party the following general election, a conservative mayor has warned ur influential.

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen and former Health Secretary Matt Hancock – both Rishi Sunak supporters – were among those who compared the “misjudged” policy to the 'madness tax' fiasco that partly saw Theresa May fail to secure a majority in the 2017 general election.

< p> Tory MP Mark Harper has claimed Margaret Thatcher "will be livid" over the £8.8billion hole left in Ms Truss's plans after the U-turn, and urged the Foreign Secretary to 'stop blaming journalists' after seeking to claim she had been 'twisted' in entirely accurate reports in her policy press release.

Ms Truss also sparked fury after she branded Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon an 'attention seeker' which should be ignored, in comments to the Conservatives' election campaign tors in Exeter on Monday was described as 'deeply disturbing' by Ms Sturgeon's deputy John Swinney. August 2022 22:30