Liz Truss blames ‘groupthink’ for economic damage under her watch

While former PM takes some responsibility for markets crisis after mini-budget, she says main fault lay with Bank of England

Liz Truss has set out her intent to be the Conservatives' beacon for lower taxes and smaller government despite her disastrous 49 days inside No 10, arguing that the economic damage under her rule was largely the fault of groupthink" from officials and the media.

In a pugnacious and lengthy Q&A after a speech in London, and taking notably more questions than she did as prime minister, Truss promised to push her message at the Conservative party conference in Manchester next month, which she will then expand on in a book.