As households across the country threaten to refuse to pay soaring energy bills, Liz Truss, the new Conservative leader, responded over the weekend to criticism of her planned tax cuts by arguing that her vision was the best solution to the crisis engulfing the country.
“To look at everything through the lens of redistribution I believe is wrong because what I’m about is about growing the economy and growing the economy benefits everybody,” she told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. “The economic debate for the past 20 years has been dominated by discussions about distribution.”
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