Liz Truss called for patients to be charged for GP visits, 2009 paper reveals

PM hopeful co-authored pamphlet that also called for doctors' pay to be slashed by 10% and abolition of universal child benefit

Conservative leadership frontrunner Liz Truss has been accused of showing her true colours" in an 2009 paper promoting government spending cuts including slashing doctors' pay.

Truss called for patients to be charged to see their GP and for doctors' pay to be slashed by 10% in a controversial report she co-authored when she was deputy director of the Reform thinktank, TalkTV discovered.