Liz Truss: 'My tax cuts will decrease inflation' – video
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In an interview with BBC Radio 4, the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, defended her pledged tax cuts as she gets ready to go head to head with the former chancellor Rishi Sunak for the leadership of the Tories. Sunak described her plan as a 'fairytale' during the live debates. When asked if a single economist agreed with her view that debt-funded tax cuts would not increase inflation, Truss cited the work of Patrick Minford, a professor of economics at Cardiff University. Sunak and Truss have clashed throughout the Tory leadership contest on opposing economic plans and have made the issue central to their respective campaigns
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