Liz Truss bows to pressure with corporation tax U-turn ‘on the table’

Speculation that reversal on leadership campaign pledge risks split with her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng

Liz Truss has bowed to intense pressure from Conservative MPs and the markets by agreeing to redraw her mini-budget, paving the way for a major U-turn on her signature corporation tax cut.

In another serious blow to her authority as prime minister, government sources told the Guardian that a climbdown on the plan to scrap the rise in corporation tax was now on the table".