Michael Gove says Liz Truss’s tax cut plans ‘not Conservative’

Influential former minister hints he will not vote for mini-budget measures in blow to PM

Tory party conference: latest updates

Michael Gove has launched a sustained broadside at Liz Truss's economic plans, saying it was not Conservative" to fund tax cuts from borrowing and marked a betrayal of the party's one nation 2019 election manifesto.

In a frantic day of interventions, the former levelling up secretary first told BBC One - while Truss watched from the same studio - that it was probable he could not back the tax cuts in parliament, before embarking on a string of similarly damning fringe appearances at the Conservative conference.