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New Zealand and the UK both have top tax rates that raise little revenue but lie as potent political traps for parties on the right

The PM has performed a series of screeching U-turns since entering Number 10. But is abandoning a policy always a disaster – or is there a way to get away with it?

The Bank of England recently unpacked £65 billion ($72 billion) in an emergency measure to avoid a crash in government bond prices. Without the intervention, the U.K.’s pension funds, which rely heavily on bond holdings, would have entered default. A larger economic crisis was averted.

A vast majority of the public, and nearly half of those who voted Conservative in 2019, believe that benefits should rise in line with inflation, as Liz Truss considers a 5.4% increase which critics warn will plunge the poorest into misery

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Failing to raise benefits in line with inflation would be 'a scar on the soul of our country', the former PM said

Two other Prime Ministers attended comprehensive schools

Liz Truss would be ‘immoral’ to make poor pay price of economic plan, says former Labour PM

Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng have so far not ruled out such a real-terms cut to benefits.

The Labour former Prime Minister added to a chorus of opposition from Tories - as he said only raising benefits by earnings would be "immoral", "unfair" and "unequal"

The Prime Minister will say 'disruption' is worth it to grow the economy in her first Tory conference speech as PM - as ex-PM Gordon Brown warned of a 'national uprising' and her Foreign Secretary slapped down her Home Secretary