Liz Truss considered cutting NHS cancer care to pay for tax cuts, claims new book

Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister also claims former Tory leader feared smears over cocaine use among team

Liz Truss considered cutting cancer care on the NHS in a desperate bid to find savings to pay for the tax cuts in her botched mini budget", according to a new book about her time in office.

The book, Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister by the renowned political biographer Anthony Seldon, is a 330-page long, largely excoriating account of Truss's 45 days in Downing Street.

At that point, they were joined by fellow special adviser Alex Boyd, who was told that Truss and Kwarteng were thinking they could still sort out the black hole with severe cuts.

We've been told that they're looking at stopping cancer treatment on the NHS,' they told him.